White paper bags steamed stiff for suffercating.
Collections of the same black cobra hung neatly in you walk-in
waiting to be knotted around your neck parallel
to backbone
squeezing everything closed because the information you choose to swallow goes down
like sand, heating in your throat. React to discomfort
pull the cobra tighter around your neck
because sand heats under pressure turing to glass.
Transparent.
Spit up the shards of glass decorating those around you. Sparkling with truth for the devil to see. He's been waiting to feast.
Angela,
ReplyDeleteI really liked this piece! I like the use of a Cobra to Stress. I love the language and choice of words you used. I also like the pictures you paint. Its really cool because I get a sense of stress from this piece but you talk about a Cobra and how glass is created. Glass being created in the throat is just so intresting to me. I'm not sure how I feel about "steamed stiff" because when I say the line out loud it felts like to many "ST" like S was over used. It was kind of a tounge twister so I think the detail could maybe be switched up a little? You also have an intresting display for your words so long and then short and then long. I like this free write.