Pretty Chihuahua

Eventually, all sacrifices seek revenge.

By CorvusPublished 3 months ago • 1 min read

Photo by Marc Cordeau on Unsplash

Pretty Chihuahua,

crawls across the bedroom floor,

plucks your sleeping bones.

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Corvus

Corvus is a kaleidoscope of Gothic word-craft, stuck somewhere within the hurricanes of prose and poetry and wrung out on each page. Find more fragments of the love letter on their website, corvuslove.

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Mackenzie Davis3 months ago
Ooh, I really like this one. The image is so creepy. Well done!

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