Chelsea Smiles

This is a piece I wrote using specific words from a list for my ENG 050 class. It's a little morbid, so reader's discretion is advised :)

The velvet sunset melts

A veil of amber and marigold

Anointed with iris

Plays ceiling to the city of Glasgow

There upon the jagged streets

Pivot a pair of bridled steeds

Drawing up behind them the nightly hearse

Through the rain that puddles

In the dips of the road

Wooden wheels tweak and tremble

She chokes the reins - the embalmer’s daughter

And descends from her perch

Down to whispered feet

The Scottish air pecks her scars

Raven hair running riot

She withdraws into a zone

That spaces the bar and the bakery

And waits for the man

Who razed her

He came as she knew he would

Old, battered, decrepit

They had always shared a similar scowl, she thought

Before stubbing his own

Into the concrete

Sharpened knife shimmers

A reflection of her jackal’s grin

She carved his cheeks from

Ear to ear

Before taking to his throat

And slitting it through

He wheezed and hissed, gasping

Thirsty soil sipped the soaking scarlet

They had never looked so alike

As life drifted out from his vacant eyes

Dragging his corpse to the cart

And throwing it atop the rest

It was the only way in the world

Daddy could ever make Chelsea smile

Author's Note

29 of the verbs/nouns were taken directly from an assigned list, and therefore, are not natural of my pen.