Showing posts with label Zora Neale Hurston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zora Neale Hurston. Show all posts

Thursday, July 23, 2015

Overwhelming


Malformed creature
Of ominous birth, your
Nature
Strikes fear in
The
Reptilian mind; your
Outsized
Proportions feel
Out of control as you
Loom
Over all,
Unpredictable and growing,
Swallowing man’s soul.


Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God.