she huddles in tormented pose working like a fiend on her oeuvre’s final piece the anatomical agony of horizontal necks the three shades the souls of the ****** abandon all hope ye who enter this mind the words run in the shadow of her face years and years the pyre’s ash tormented her features until her skin turned grey like the sky abandon all hope ye who enter she lost her mind somewhere in the fire abandon all hope on that day she cried for the sun abandon she huddles in her loose skin the oils of her flesh embodying the paints staining the woman she once was