By Jackie Chou
after Edvard Munch
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The screams are stuck inside of me
so no sound is coming out
I cover my ears
to silence the voices
my palms squeezing my cheeks
my lids stretched so wide
my eyeballs are falling out
and I have pulled off my hair
I am bald
bald as the nakedness of my fears
my mouth forming into the oval
of shrieks landing on deaf gods
The sunset is fiery and fierce
my friends having abandoned me
without leaving so much
as a silhouette
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An ekphrastic response to
The Scream by Edvard Munch.
Jackie Chou (she/her) is a writer from Southern California who has two collections of poetry, The Sorceress and Finding My Heart in Love and Loss, published by cyberwit. Her poem "Formosa" was a finalist in the Stephen A DiBiase Poetry Prize. She also has poems published in
Synchronized Chaos, The Ekphrastic Review, Panoply Zine, Alien Buddha Zine, and
Spillwords.
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