hour
and a thousand
others on the side.
Tell us something [inspired]
in the darker,
gloomier corners—
the way you drown
in secrets,
pulling and stretching
a dim shadow of
nothing, nothing, nothing
in blackness.
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A cut-up/remixed poem composed from several chapters of Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews.
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Shloka Shankar is a writer and visual artist from Bangalore, India. She loves experimenting with Japanese short-forms and found poetry alike. A Best of the Net nominee, her poems have most recently appeared/forthcoming in honey & lime, One Sentence Poems, petrichor, Burning House Press, Jam & Sand, and so on. Shloka is the founding editor of Sonic Boom, its imprint Yavanika Press, and Senior Editor at Human/Kind Journal.
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