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a frail ephemeral

Frail and ephemeralthis touch is like a whisperpassing throughevery smallest fissure.  Another beatmy quiet heartheld against your breastI keep it…

darkness, death, ephemera, gardening, health, nature, plants, poem, poetry

onetoten

one steptwo stepthree step morestare intently at the floorwonder how it holds me theremaybe I’m becoming air; look aroundthe ground…

anxiety, death, dreams, meditation, mind, nature, poem, poetry, weather

instep

one year comes and one year goesone year burns out one soon glows,opening a door or twoto open you to…

death, depression, mind, nature, new year, new years day, poem, poetry, rivers, seasons, time, winter

deck the hells – a vampire’s promise

[I hope you know the carol, if you do then sing it] Deck the hells with boughs of dolliesfa-la-la-la-la la-la…

carol, christmas, death, midwinter, pagan, poem, poetry, solstice, vampires, winter, Yule

swallowtail

I know you’re therebut I’ve never met youI see your starein the mirror each morning,but I never met you, or…

anxiety, biology, birth, death, grief, poem, poetry, swallowtail, twins

dislocate

And the night died once againa clean death, painlessshadow-snagged, cold, dislocated. Air lays dead and leadenpinned down to the earth,suffocated…

autumn, darkness, death, depression, grief, ice, leaf, nature, poem, poetry, supernatural, winter

echo streams (finale)

(and on the eight night) Let death talk to mehear its whispers through the stonescarved in names and epitaphswords that…

all hallows, autumn, darkness, death, demons, halloween, night, poem, poetry, seasons

hallow (on the seventh night)

(and on the seventh night) The skin between is thinningflimsy and translucentwe waitwe stifle silent screams, The hallows is openingI…

all hallows, autumn, darkness, death, erotica, ghosts, halloween, poem, poetry, sex, sexuality, supernatural, vampires

host (on the sixth night)

(and on the sixth night) the leaves are the ghostshaunting the winterlong shadowstrees are the hostshiding time in their fissures…

afterlife, anxiety, autumn, darkness, death, ghosts, gothic, halloween, magic, mind, myth, nature, poem, poetry, trees, veils

the thinning veil (on the fifth night)

(and on the fifth night) Shadows shed their sloughing skinrevealingdarker lightnew moon flightacross a sky concealing, Figures dancing motionlessclawinggrasping thornsreaching…

anxiety, autumn, darkness, death, ghosts, grief, halloween, nature, poem, poetry, vampire, veil, winter

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