Tag: betwixt and between

  • horizon roads

    lizard tails and tail feathers
    our hearts lined in trees
    bloodstone inside and
    marching square toes
    in steel rings and bootblack
    down the horizon roads
    scented with burnout:
    come night, she sings

  • until the end of time

    i watched as the shallow boat
    carried two dead lovers
    into the mists and away
    to the place of apples at
    the hands of destiny's child
    wiping away tears,
    i bid them goodbye
    rest well
    rest well
    until the end of time

  • hush

    that she cries
    her stone tears
    this dark angel at
    thresholds waiting
    while the sun
    burns away her
    stonefield shadow
    hush now, tired one,
    stolen one,
    hush now and sleep

  • half-sick

    everything return and
    goes to loaming in under—
    call rook or declare crow

    truth is of water
    unstirred by eddy
    as by the reeds her
    shallow barge flows

    half-sick of shadows
    she whispers, lips dry
    as she rivers through

    i, too, grow
    half-sick of shadows
    aching for the moon

  • flow

    she flows scarlet and scarred
    through leaden falling snows
    grace over fell, wending 'round trees
    with black hair and crow—
    a drifter gazing in thrall

  • shadows

    nothing to lose
    nothing to prove
    slipping along that
    thin grey line
    surrendering to
    the lady of shadows--
    let her bring
    what she will bring

  • scatterleaf

    here, her season blows in
    hair dancing, standing razors ledge
    wings stretched in embrace air

    scatterleaf and fallen umber
    we ache for her voidkiss
    to carry us breath for wind
    while thunder hooves drive
    hearts to pound
  • night skin you, day skin you

    night skin you, day skin you

    a dream of
    night skin you & day skin you
    crawling from the barrows
    to give to hold, drinking you in
    before the everblind

    leave me to slumber at
    the foot of your altar
    with peekaboo sunshine
    warming the empty of eye
    let this mantic fade from view

    a nightmare of
    night skin you & day skin you
    crawling from make-dust
    from the depths of our youth

  • first kiss

    [response]

    stone raven black
    her slow hand turns
    on the moon
    in lace and silhouette
    waiting on dusk
    to kiss me
    a bridge closer home,
    ever to her side

    [call]

    Laughing into the fire
    Is it always like this?
    Flesh and blood and the first kiss
    The first colors, the first kiss

    ~ Siamese Twins

  • riders

    come the riders of the storm
    with their galleons and steel
    with their spinning and yearning
    to rip down gossamer veils, all

    winds tearing through and calling
    for to take up the night's ride
    here comes the deadliest season
    lock your doors against that cry