Thank you to Poetry Editor Archita Mittra and the rest of the Editorial Team at Quail Bell for publishing the deliciously creepy "Poe's Annabel Lee."  And to Artist Gretchen Gales.  You nailed the image!

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Poe’s Annabel Lee

​Dearly departed,
your face fitted inside the ornate filigree frame.
Your feathered hat
surrounds a rawboned face.

Your shoulders hold a filmy wrap of satin and lace.
Your skeletal fingers
shift in the light on graceful hands.
Velvet gloves clasped as you, the lost lover,
endure your woeful waiting,
as the pendulum wall clock ticks,
and you hoard his books,
as you anticipate
his arrival.