Posts Tagged "Poetry"
the saddest of angels
the saddest of angels is a girl who spends her days on black basalt boulders & sings the colors of night: crimson & cobalt, opal & malachite, sings the darkness of stars & the moon & the fullness of glaciers below, a girl who sings with the meadowlark & the...
Read MoreMonster: Puppeteer
The splintered scrape of broken bone, forced to and fro across sharp stone. No one to see, no one to care how slowly died the desert hare. No accident, no slip, no trip, its mind caught in a monster’s grip. Six-eyed, six-mouthed, the monster foul controlled each scraping move, each...
Read MoreTreebound
When you are done with wizardry, when each breath wearies you: choose your ground; consider the ways of water, of root, branch, bark. After bending the world to your will, after waging war for kings: choose your final form; willow, or oak, or larch; shape the spell. After knowledge,...
Read MoreThings That Earth No Longer Bears
Existence observed, without passion, the brief time of humans, their toys, flesh, laughter, tears becoming ghosts in the river of Now. Infinity amused at the raw, shared subconscious, noticed in a leap of regret, the sweet brine of star dust in each being, conceived in a shell of flesh,...
Read MoreVOX
Fallen among the stars The light comes and I Raise myself to it in welcome A supplicant My voice no longer my own. I hear the howls of the Things-That-Are Their maws snap and lunge Vicious in anticipation Looming near. He steps forward, weapon drawn I hold out my hand to him To them...
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