poetry

Eccentricities of Murphy's mind. Jessica Murphy is a writer and poet traveling the states, living on the road out the back of a truck. If she thinks it, she'll prolly put it right here for the world to read.

Saturday, June 5, 2010

Spontaneous Combustion

Flamboyant flames licked
the ceiling above her body.
colour abound
as her skin blackened.
Ashen from within.
In the postmortem picture
was only high heel.
partial leg. & char.
lots of charred,
unidentifiable remains.





When I was a kid I watched a special about "Spontaneous Human Combustion" on the Discovery channel. I couldn't sleep for weeks after. Terrified I was going to burst into flames at any moment. The biggest thing I remember about that show was this one picture.

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