The chair was plush

against her rear as she sat.

Its pillowed back soft

along clenched muscles.

Sinewy arms trail from an

oblique chest, the mirror

an offensive reminder of

the doll on the other-side.

 

The reflection pictured

cherry tainted cheeks

marred by grooves of

hilarity. The supple flesh

curdled lightly with the

separation of two blush

petals, revealing ribs stark

white, ends rounded.

 

Her lips pulled taut, obscuring

the filmy gums raised by

starch curves. The symmetric

enamel rows glistened, absent of

their pronged metal jackets.

 

Thin black fingers unfurled out

of her eyes the garish marks a

regurgitation of the lacerations

that framed her lips.

 

The lilt of her delicately sunken

sockets bruised from misuse, coupled

with the tightness of  her gossamer

pink skin across glossy alabaster teeth,

froze the concise image exampled

within the glass.