Ophelia Monet

Wicked Things

rain trails down surfaces in rivulets / staining each

object with blood / grief for all wicked things done /

         i think that if you wanted to, you could

talk me into lying to my own self / question my own

         intentions / beg to start over / bleach every crimson /

dye the linens a pale beige / burn it all down / open your

         eyes / now we start anew / become what we dreamt /

camouflage the change / empty throats of their secrets

Ophelia Monet is an educator, mother, and storm chaser, living in Kentucky with her husband and their son. Her work is forthcoming in Free Verse Revolution, Unleash Lit, Loud Coffee Press, Heimat Review, The Orchards Poetry Journal, and more.