A horror poem by John Grey, escorted by Kiki Ren’s creepy AI creations.
Written by John Grey
Art by Kiki Ren
THE WEDDED COUPLE
Her eyelids remain closed,
as her teeth
chomp down on her thumb.
She’s adorned in a yellowed
crumbling wedding dress.
Something crawls across
her ratty gray hair.
The air inside her house
is like a tropical greenhouse,
thick and steamy,
basted with the cloying smell
of orchards in bud.
And the light is soiled green
like it was filtered through
an abandoned aquarium tank.
Beside the ancient couch
on which she lolls,
a plant
with leaves like rancid meat
reaches out
to pat her rouged-up cheek.
Her dead husband sits beside her,
head on her shoulder.
His face is a sluggish mask
that’s slowly peeling away.
About the Author
John Grey is an Australian poet, US resident, recently published in Stand, Washington Square Review and Floyd County Moonshine. Latest books, “Covert” “Memory Outside The Head” and “Guest Of Myself” are available through Amazon. Work upcoming in the McNeese Review, Santa Fe Literary Review and Open Ceilings
About the Artist
Kiki is best described as 45% Elvira, 45% Dolly Parton, and 10% Danny Devito. Though she’s always been a lover of all forms of art, technology has always been her forte. She studied computer science for four years before dropping out and coasting through life in various retail management positions. That’s until she found her true calling: being an embarrassment to her family online. When she’s not whipping up websites or blessing the world with memes and generative art she’s hunting for oddities at thrift stores or reading the most disturbing pieces of experimental fiction she can find.
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