On the eve of All Hallows comes my final darkly seasonal offering to appease the restless ghosts. . . . … More
Tag: halloween
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, … More
still (an all hallows study)
Darkness palesI fear the lightcrawlingever closersprawlingever closerbrushingagainst my skin clammy, carelessfoetal claws clawing older scarsancient flaws gnawing on the bones turnrun nowhere here to … More
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 … More
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 … More
confidante (an all hallows study- beginnings)
(an all hallows study) Descending into darkthe year’sdescendingintodark; Death comes caring notfor friend of for foefor lovers or for hope; … More
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 … More