Purring in My Haunted Ear

“A Child’s Nightmare” by Robert Graves

Through long nursery nights he stood

By my bed unwearying,

Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,

Purring in my haunted ear

That same hideous nightmare thing,

Talking, as he lapped my blood,

In a voice cruel and flat,

Saying for ever, “Cat! … Cat! … Cat!…”

 

For the Mysterious Nights contest at Kreative People.

 

For the Vivid Frights contest at Vivid Art.

 

Photo and texture my own

Done