Murder in Haiku
by Michelle Gentile
A mirror shatters.
Window, bed, breeze. Worried drapes
Hover over her.
Her deadened weight cries
A red, rose petal river.
Flows over white silk.
Standing there. His stares
Multiply malignantly.
In small panes of glass.
Tires scream. Sirens sing,
Flashing red and blue. Fire. Ice.
Heat inside grows cold.
Turn. Face the window.
Broken mirror. Broken man.
Falling to his knees.
Knife his body to
the spot where he stabbed her. His
Freedom bleeds away.
She hardens to white veined.
marble. The mirror shows him
Her death unending.
Poetry
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