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[succubus]

folding into

opening

a humming

leads her into

prayers, morbidly quiet

her name

becomes a burden

unsettling disgust

a climax of agonies

self-harming interiors

she can’t save

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Madelaine Culver is a writer and poet currently based in Newcastle upon Tyne where she’s studying for a practice-based PhD on British horror cinema and intertextual poetics. Her work appears in various places online and in print, including ALIENIST, 3:AM Magazine, and Seen as Read: an anthology of visual, asemic and photo poetry. Find her online at www.notesfromthetower.info.