The Vampire
(after Goya’s The Shootings of May Third 1808)
Joseph R. Trombatore

In the dusk of frogs
the pastel wash of an evening’s grace
soft mantel clock ticking

heartbeat

against a floral wallpaper, a Goya fresco
of face & firing squad
fierce & final

a mirror
a silhouette
the only thing

in this nightmare standing guard
a wolf
hungry as ice

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