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Female Mischief
Hillary
Lyon
let’s deconstruct a rainbow
one brick at a time let’s build a carnival gate
at the bridge to hell sell fishing permits
at the shores of the abyss a party for everyone with a mask
in place of a face
(hooray)
slip into a pair of goat’s hooves
look behind you—the devil
made tracks in the sand with a finger like a bent twig
plow a diagram the rendering of an evil
wish the plane crash the car wreck
the permanent vanishing
(open sesame)
confetti and ash—dirge and anthem
my party dress is laser-cut
paper lace my black veil trails
sparks—the velvet lining
my doll heart tilts my eyes
open close open pull my string
I’ll curse you just as much as I can
love you
boo
do I
scare you
Hillary Lyon, Lyonwrite@gmail.com, who wrote BP
#90’s
poems, “Female Mischief,” “The Lycanthrope’s Lament,” and “Worm” (+ BP #87’s
“There’s an App for That” tale and the 3-poem set, “Cottonmouth,” “In the
Flickering,” and “Ode to the Face on the Missing Person Poster”; BP #85’s
“Bottle Music,” BP #83’s “Strange Music Follows Her Everywhere,” and BP #78’s
“The Lucky Break”) lives in southern Arizona, where she founded and still edits
poetry journals for Subsynchronous Press, an Arizona-based independent poetry
publisher. An SFPA Rhysling Award nominated poet, her poems have appeared in
publications such as Eternal Haunted Summer, Illumen, Scfifaikuest,
Farther Stars Than These, Disturbed Digest, and Dreams&
Nightmares, as well as numerous anthologies. When not writing, she creates
illustrations for horror and pulp fiction publications.
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