Hobble Creek Review
| Kristine Ong Muslim |
Stalker
The sidewalks are vessels filled with buzzing noise
and leftover grime from daytime's little cruelties.
A light bulb flickers somewhere, and someone lets
someone in. Nobody wants the smaller share
of darkness; everyone is hungrier each time.
A hysterical rhetoric of love. A hand makes its choice,
covets the image at the farther side of the scope, worships
what the incendiary eye sees behind each eye.
The sidewalks are vessels filled with buzzing noise
and leftover grime from daytime's little cruelties.
A light bulb flickers somewhere, and someone lets
someone in. Nobody wants the smaller share
of darkness; everyone is hungrier each time.
A hysterical rhetoric of love. A hand makes its choice,
covets the image at the farther side of the scope, worships
what the incendiary eye sees behind each eye.
Kristine Ong Muslim's poetry and fiction has appeared in such
journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday, Narrative
Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, and Weber Journal. She has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times.
journals as Bellevue Literary Review, Fifth Wednesday, Narrative
Magazine, The Pedestal Magazine, and Weber Journal. She has been
nominated for the Pushcart Prize three times.
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