half dead
half dead
face twisted
skeleton and flesh
beauty marked with pain
beaten
frozen
laughless and hard
pieces
pulled away like stringcheese
soul escapes
breath catches
as the heart screeches
quickly
scrambling to hide away
bits that remain
Rachel Pagel is an artist and poet from Olympia, Washington. She currently lives on the
Central Coast, and attends Cuesta College.
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