Poems from
Imaginaria A collection of truly mind-bending science-fiction poems exploring the boundaries of the human imagination and challenging our everyday perceptions of reality. What is normal and what is not? You be the judge.
The Nukekubi
by Angela Yuriko Smith
plastered to her shrieking face--silent, hateful screams.
I thought she was there just for me---my own terror--a resident ghost.
Like slick tentacles her neck cords trailed to the ground disembodied face
It made sense to me. soaked wet from The house was Victorian drowning in the deep, deep South. or perhaps from her own tears. Such places have She couldn’t tell me. ghosts. She hung behind me, My nukekubi mid-air out of place in her face contorted Tennessee… out of place like me. her hair streaming down
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