Beautiful

no one gets out alive, so they say

By Harper LewisPublished about 6 hours ago • Updated about 6 hours ago • 1 min read

Tall bearded iris at a former home

may I never learn

a secret so beautiful

that I am fatal

Haiku

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Harper Lewis

I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction might have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈

MA English literature, College of Charleston

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