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It came to rest in the corner of my room, concealing its face under the cover of a cool twilight. I struggled to perceive its smooth contours as it remained motionless, yet my dancing eyes persuaded me otherwise. It was breathing; a soft, s…
Midnight fell upon the earth and with it came the artic breath of winter. Shadows of trees danced with ravaged motion below the dim, insignificant glow of the street lamps. A faint indistinguishable drizzle gently hissed as it fell upon the…
I could hardly feel the cigarette end between my fingers. Only a slight warmth from the faint shimmering glow as the smoke stroked my fingers before fading into the sterilized white light. I still couldn’t perceive where my fingers met the …
August light catches the roosting falcon In Indian summer twilight A momentary lapse in the sombre hues Cast from the sinking sun A pause enough for the pale grey feathers To catch fire For this master of wind and air To draw flame from wit…
The morning was heralded only with A bitter swirling wind In the distance clouds gathered Dark and immense Phantoms from some lost age Crossing this dull planet Spanning the sky in one graceful movement At one monotonous speed The wind …
'I am a changeling, see me grow new wings' Almost silence hangs upon his breath Ancient tongues of forgotten language In this place of death and dying The rejected moans diffuse darkness Fast-fill these shades of beings Morning madness refl…
Death's own immortal kingdom Rests on the other side of morning Its breath rises above the sweet air of living And it holds us down Clutches at us through the veil of night It devours No dignity No delusions of morality There is no remorse …
The Earth rolls evermore, its diurnal course stirring Alluring the tempest, the ice-tipped blast from the savage north Though waves of frenzied motion defy an icebound existence Though the frail become forlorn, unable to cast off the peris…
His eyes retract from the white glare of the outside On the inside his blood retracts from the tubes That drain his life and confuse him with drugs The nursed sheets smother his breath Restrain all desire and hope Tired with thoughts from b…
Young choir girl Slender innocence Falling lightly across Her smooth chest Angelical androgyny Ageless and forever A cold consecrated flame Finding no reflection Ascends the skies Burning heaven's doorway Chorister boy Pubescent Lost Downc…
The darkness broods Over the lovers' embrace A cloak that covers the Remains of a tiring day Yet there is a strangeness in the light It shines radiates through midnight airs Here is there a most silent power Wild spirit of the night Pale an…
'I have to see what's out there' Earth-drunk he staggered across hilltops Dark crow-song flung across the harvest land And into the night chill warmed with fear The old man valley-veered and was gone
Last night I slipped from the rock Plunged Earth-sea Earth-sky The infinite in one