What Fiend is This?

by Treischel

Pray tell! What Fiend is this,

Who hides in hollow of a tree?

Those empty eyes cannot disguise

That horrid sentiments arise.

Is this a winter den

So deep within that wounded oak?

You’re hidden not. I see your face

That’s lurking there so out of place.

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A two stanza poem about an amazing face I saw in a tree. It is almost skeletal, with vacant eyes and open mouth showing some sharp teeth. Do I see a hand coming out as well? This is actually just a burl on a tree, but it really caught my eye, so I snapped a photo. Had I not already published it by the time I wrote this, this poem would be in my Animated Stills book.
The rhyme scheme is ABCC. The meter is 6-8-8-8.

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