Demeter’s Night Mare
An ancient hand was found; then a limb, a head / on the grounds of the old Greystone mansion: / when they were put together again / they found it was Demeter, from Greece.

Tessa Kale is the author of a prize-winning chapbook, The Hudson Line, and a novel, Daphne Underground.
An ancient hand was found; then a limb, a head / on the grounds of the old Greystone mansion: / when they were put together again / they found it was Demeter, from Greece.
Admit it though there are hands and feet, there are no bodies— this is why they are frightening! behind is only emptiness. Hands grasp a ...
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