The Surface and Its Depth

Spelling Shame

I wrote down what I thought he was thinking.

I had taken fantasized words out of his brain, taken any sort of magic they would have held

and I created voodoo.

The spell I spelled named itself "Embarrassment" and it's curse immediately cast itself upon me.

Now I shall never write what I believe to be someone else's truth

or hang me like the Salem witch trials, across the way of the sinners shindig.

-Hanna Guzman (2021)