Chess
Metamorphosis of Woman/ Realms of Man – reversible poetry chapbook by Leilanie Stewart and Joseph Robert
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Stalemate (page 6 – Metamorphosis of Woman)
You were playing chess with my soul
I saw you eat the pieces
As you went along
I watched the black and white squares
Slide into the abhorrent depths
Of my subconscious
You took my knight, but it’s okay;
I have another
I’ll have my revenge
I’ll stamp those L-shaped patterns
All over your sadistic mind
I can see that it’s going this way
So I’ll finish it off-
I didn’t checkmate your wicked heart,
That happened long ago
And anyway, it’s too cliché
My pawn’s at the other side now
Wait until my Queen brings forth
A whole new reign of terror
On your brutal, tyrannical ass.
© 2012 Leilanie Stewart
About Leilanie Stewart
Leilanie Stewart is an award-winning author and poet from Belfast, Northern Ireland. She writes ghost and psychological horror, as well as experimental poetry. Her writing confronts the nature of self; her novels feature main characters on a dark psychological journey who have a crisis and create a new sense of identity. She began writing for publication while working as an English teacher in Japan, a career pathway that has influenced themes in her writing. Her former career as an Archaeologist has also inspired her writing and she has incorporated elements of archaeology and mythology into both her fiction and poetry.
In addition to promoting her own work, Leilanie runs Bindweed Anthologies, a creative writing publication with her writer husband, Joseph Robert. Aside from publishing pursuits, Leilanie enjoys spending time with her husband and their lively literary lad, a voracious reader of sea monster books.
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