Bone Prayers, a poem written by Kim M. Russel at Spillwords.com

Bone Prayers

written by: Kim M. Russell

@kim88110

Beware Halloween
and the days in between,
when knuckles crack
behind the back
of a flesh-eating ghoul
that sips your soul,
carves telling stones
from finger bones,
Our Fathers and Hail Marys
on calcified rosaries.
Fingers that once folded in prayer
this Halloween beware!

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Kim M. Russell

Kim M. Russell has been writing since she was a schoolgirl but only started posting and submitting to competitions and anthologies when she retired from teaching in 2014. She posts mainly poetry on her WordPress blog, writing in north norfolk, and is a host of the international website dVerse Poets Pub. Her poems have been published on-line on Visual Verse, Carpe Diem and Pure Haiku, as well as in the following printed anthologies: Poetry Rivals and Love's Labyrinth (Forward Press), Afflatus Magazine, River Writes (Bure Navigation Conservation Trust), the Emma Press Anthology of Aunts and the Peeking Cat Anthology 2017, as well as a piece of flash fiction in Flash, I love you!, published by Paper Swans Press.