Jumping Puddles

On a cool spring evening
saw cocooned young girl
skipping skipping skipping

while her mother’s blood
was dripping dripping dripping.

Not mashed
musky stench
stencil-plating

failure foetus
plastering out psyche
aberrant aborted spleen.

But razored edge
editing adult life.

Themes Of Domestic Violence!
See also ‘Spare The Rod’, ‘After Burn’ and ‘Male Myth Busters’.

poem by Terence George Craddock
Submitted by Poetry Lover
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