Page 18 - Dark Matter:Women Witnessing Issue #3 - December 2015

I am afraid of his teeth,

his grim shining eyes

mostly

I am afraid

of his voice

He could kill me with his stories

I bludgeoned my wife he tells me------

I broke

the blood of her flesh----

I broke

the thin bones of her fingers for touching another man----

I branded

her ribs with fists.

I stabbed her

with a fire stick blazing

to sear her

to me.

She turned

so many colors the sky could no longer please me.

Who is she? I ask.

Wife for Dark Nights, he answers----------Wife for Dark Nights Wife for Dark Nights Wife

for Dark nights Wife for dark nights wife for dark nights

Notes

November 13, 2015*

I woke up around 3 in the morning and in the staticky light saw a woman standing next to

my bed. She had a cage at her feet. I couldn't make out her face but I saw that she

wasn't very tall and that her hair was in braids. I turned on my light and the apparition

disappeared. But I began to scribble something down on the notepad I keep by my bed.