Tag: betwixt and between

ephemeral as morning fog
she drifts all hither and thither
unaware of the ghost
residing in plain sight

with her burning 
all haunts go to ground
shackled in place and
never to fade away

laying snow to the ready
her hair tumbles down
night against the pale

i give to the weary 
a wanting to the wait
pictures with shadow hands

wind speechless stole 
blood lips silent kiss
to hum at barbed wire

can you remember?

i so ghost the slip/fade
the lips, they move
the words, they say
lost to the flux/shift
miming animal faces
in heavy rains

it is only echo, right? 
i ask night burning low

duty bound
to do away with sense:

can you firewalk
with me under a
tumblemoon, with
stars slicing eyes?
let our feet fail ground
before our wedding day
you & i laying down
rainy grey under
at the quayside...

—and i think you know
how this story ends;
with whispers wraith
kissing ears
as all suns bury down

these bones, some mine
under stone, turquoise skies 
painted pale on my heart
some lingering...

we wraith ride
howl, our wind flag snaps
i believe in faith of love
just not this here, this time

memories, those wisps
slipping between the veil

lessons learned,
i fold up my life
tears and creases plenty
across a worn map
places to see through
the hills and vale
stuff it into my satchel
without ceremony
as i crush compass
underboot and follow
a star to stone

not chasing butterflies i
not watching foxfire tonight
wisps, they drift the willow
and there i turn my eye

she wraps her pale in shadow
she wraps my heart in wire
tug with bone scarred ivory
wrapping shades through my eye

bit lip to raw and scarlet
bit neck to pierce the sighs
inking skin with stars and night
sending ink to black my eye

i have drawn lines
along the trees
dreaming worlds within,
time to set aside fevers--

we swing heartache
for her hills hollow
but now there is
naught left but
for the dying

willow willow
hungers the winter winds