tryst

The leaves are the ghostshaunting the winterlong shadows,trees are the hostshiding time in theirfissures, burrows and hollows. Come to me …

darkness light

If only you couldbleed like meto fall to piecesinside outand by the prickingof my thumbsI hide awaya life undone. Let …

hallow (an all hallows study- the final hour)

On the eve of All Hallows comes my final darkly seasonal offering to appease the restless ghosts. . . . …

host (an all hallows study)

the leaves are the ghostshaunting the winterlong shadowstrees are the hostshiding time in their fissures and hollows. © Emma Calder

the thinning veil (an all hallows study)

Shadows shed their sloughing skinrevealingdarker lightnew moon flightacross a sky concealing, Figures dancing motionlessclawinggrasping thornsreaching throughthe sheer and thinning veil, …

hearing voices (an all hallows study)

(an all hallows study) My earth is filledwith fines of dustthe casket handlesgleam to rust… sit and miss mewithering,sit and …

reclamation (an all hallows study)

(an all hallows study) If I die youngbury me in satinplease say onlygood things about medon’t let my lossbe all …

bring me back to life

(for Halloween) bring me back to lifecover me in skinconjure me from dustlayers upon layers  thin colour me in blood …

Withered hearts

Withered hearts etch their wounds indelible and worn, terrible they scorn, with bitterness they bring their harsh caress to sting. …