10/3/2022 Poetry By Leah Mueller Tim Vrtiska CC
Creature Feature #2 Eating popcorn in front of a black-and-white television, fingers drenched in melted butter and iodized salt. The Bride of Dracula has made her fatal mistake, while Frankenstein’s monster only wants acceptance from a crowd intent on his eradication. Next week, the Mummy will lumber across my screen, mindless as a drugged cow, and I can stay up as late as I want, at least until the test pattern emerges. I watch everything, the late-late news, the grand finale: a rendition of the Lord’s Prayer in sign language. Turning off the television feels like saying goodbye to an old friend I’m not sure I will ever see again--or if I do, one of us may have changed into a creature no one can recognize. I am already different: my bathroom mirror shows a face that has lived through multiple bouts of terror, and I haven’t even begun. Leah Mueller is the author of ten prose and poetry books. Her new book, "The Destruction of Angels" (Anxiety Press) is forthcoming in October 2022. Leah's work appears in Rattle, NonBinary Review, Midway Journal, Citron Review, The Spectacle, Miracle Monocle, Outlook Springs, Atticus Review, Your Impossible Voice, etc. She is a 2022 nominee for Best of the Net. Her flash piece, "Land of Eternal Thirst" will appear in the 2022 edition of Sonder Press' "Best Small Fictions" anthology. Website: www.leahmueller.org. Comments are closed.
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