Scalding or Frozen
“…long walks in pitch black tunnels…” April Ridge
We all have an entourage of broken
mirrors with different viewing angles.
Sometimes you can’t see yourself through
this seemingly evil funhouse, but you know
you’re still there, with various ghosts lurking
behind and above you. Surrounding your pitch
black tunnels. Preparing to fall or dive
inside your brain’s morbid gray matter.
Sometimes corrosive brainwaves scatter.
Explore the cracked and crooked
segments of damage and decay to locate another
stream of words. Fly or swim around gory lobes.
Strange angels with aphasiac wings,
defiantly break through another icy mirror.
Juliet Cook doesn’t fit inside an Easy-Bake Oven and rarely cooks. Her poetry has appeared in a peculiar multitude of literary publications. She is the author of numerous poetry chapbooks, most recently including “red flames burning out” (Grey Book Press, 2023), “Contorted Doom Conveyor” (Gutter Snob Books, 2023), “Your Mouth is Moving Backwards” (Ethel Zine & Micro Press, 2023), “REVOLTING” (Cul-de-sac of Blood, 2024), and “Blue Stingers Instead of Wings” (Pure Sleeze Press, 2025). Her most recent full-length poetry book, “Malformed Confetti” was published by Crisis Chronicles Press. You can find out more at https://julietcook.weebly.
