Lure of a protean beast...

chattering teeth the poison of the instilled & insignificant murder - death as a show - dazed mob rushing at the clumsy executioner to free the torture victim ...

Broken bones, ripped limbs ...

On the cracked tongue & lust, expanded ...

Taken from a floor to another

Death as a transfiguration ...

The shaking eyes of the goddess with her string of skulls