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pomegranate

blood-stained fateful fruit,

plump, juicy, sour, ruby seeds

i gladly swallowed...

let your seeds take root,

blossom into fleurs du mal

garden unhallowed,

perfume me for him

anoint me with Death’s essence

now I am his Queen.

sing to me a hymn!

newborn Goddess of the night

birthed in Hell's ravine.

(Haiku series, in the voice of Persephone, of Greek mythology)