Frail and ephemeralthis touch is like a whisperpassing throughevery smallest fissure. Another beatmy quiet heartheld against your breastI keep it…
onetoten
one steptwo stepthree step morestare intently at the floorwonder how it holds me theremaybe I’m becoming air; look aroundthe ground…
instep
one year comes and one year goesone year burns out one soon glows,opening a door or twoto open you to…
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…
swallowtail
I know you’re therebut I’ve never met youI see your starein the mirror each morning,but I never met you, or…
dislocate
And the night died once againa clean death, painlessshadow-snagged, cold, dislocated. Air lays dead and leadenpinned down to the earth,suffocated…
echo streams (finale)
(and on the eight night) Let death talk to mehear its whispers through the stonescarved in names and epitaphswords that…
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…
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…
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…
Deathless Shadows 