Walpurgisnacht
Halloween. Musty, cordite, cancerous. Explosive ghoulish days. Roller-coaster shrieked nights. Way way north of Walpurgisnacht Sweating. Fever. 48 hours. All of Virginia’s sheep. Day of dead volcanic...
View ArticleSamhain
Summer’s fruits turned to sweet sickly molasses. Trees cast children to sink in sphagnum pillows. Submerged stopped fields seem to be magic free. Winter tightens its ice cold grip on the lost soul....
View ArticleSpooked
An ice cold whisper without a tongue A lingering touch without finger or thumb. No hand is knocking that rap rap rap No foot is tapping that tap tap tap. C. Flower 01/11/2013
View ArticleFace Yourself
It was at the dark hour, on the dark day of the dead when I saw the face in the window transparent opaque nameless – like a broken promise But sinister Invoking breathless sensations in my mournful...
View ArticleHalloween ‘73
I didn’t know what culverts were Or why they must be bombed, Now this one’s guts were inside out And the kesh above deformed. The army hadn’t closed the road But left an exclamation, We went to school...
View ArticleTrees & Time
Trees Two palm trees in a misty garden The wind allows their leaves caress So easy to relieve a misty nights distress. Time With time lying quietly here in my arms and him with his beautiful bountiful...
View ArticleKillycon (song and lyric)
Song link… Killycon lyrics I followed you in the hidden lane Where the honeysuckle wept your name And told me I could take the blame For your blessings and your flaws And the trouble you would...
View ArticleResurrection Road
Follow An Slí Mór until at last it can be seen no more. Erin’s gravel spine lies there broken by main artery. Emerald cut stone drumlin way rent by flowing river. Not of ice but one of lives lived...
View ArticleBroken Boat
Born in a full summer, in a scorching tin shed Amuzz with mosquitoes A darkened orifice in density of nettles At Three Mile Bush With copper nails, pine and beech and oak Each of its parts a honed...
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