Practising the Dark Arts

I Am.

The city streets are flooded
with the buzzing
of streetlights
and sidewalks streaming
wet, lilac ribbons.

My shoes are silent convicts
stealing time from air
voiding the face…

All of space
a raven’s wing,
and every star
his treasure

he holds the earth deep
within his beak -
our moon between
its vice grip tips

a stone upon the record.

_His eyes are blin…

What color is your throne?
As bleeding rats move reliquaries,
to entice the wind with chimes and bones,
and move us past the cemetary gates

Are we now awake?
Or still encased in glass, …

Nightmare’s Prophet came to me in liquid, lies ,and entropy
His backwards whispers of blue skinned whores
belching blood on a chess-board floor
The quick phase harlequinn and the faceless ma…

trying to reach my goal……………No soul!
The price that I sold out.

every last breath take……………..Mistake!
The last one (that) I make.

wonder what it might be…………..Mystery!
The universe be…

Piebald Palindrome
Serpents Cross the Anome
A splintered Shell
The shattered bell
Sounds of nothing in backwards hell

Drones alone, drains and drowns
the names and faces
and all sound …

Breeding
desperation;
clawing at the last brick
in a wall wavering above
your death.

Eyes dart
side to side to
frenzied side, sweating fear.
Heat rises off your guilty skin,
a…

“He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword,” he declared. “But this is my path no longer. Now I know that Death is not the end, but the beginning.”

When his father had warned him of the monsters on the streets of New York, he hadn’t thought the monsters were real …

The argument continued.

Shhhh….hush, my soul, he cometh!
Midnight rings from the belfry –
The ungodly hour strikes
And soon the dreadful sound of heavy shoes
Will reach my bleeding ears

_Shhhh….hush, my soul…

By North, South, East and West.
By Flame, Rain, Crystal and Breath.
I Call the Guardians to Witness
The Rite of Righteous rage.
Hear Me!
For I am the Sword Arm
of the Red Queen,
who slip…

I was born such an ugly mother
But my mother said “I looked cute”
…I looked like I fell from a plane
without a parachute!

(I’m beautiful)

I was born so ugly, can’t you see…
When I was…

Alone I went into the night
Alone- no one walked with me.
Although stars and moon were shining bright
Lost love! O – how I mourned thee.

Upon the stars I gazed
Crying out my sorrow
Now…

SHIT … I’m late for work again
But this time the car won’t start
So I tried to get on the bus
Only to see it drive straight past
Nearly taking me out on the way.
Then I walked to the train…

I watch the Dark Moon creep across
And feel Her in my water.
I wonder how long I can hold the rage
Before I start the slaughter.

I prowl amongst the gilded swans
All cloying pastels, per…

Your Right to Party on Rite

Got invited to the party just one of the free
To be one of the united in opposition to you
Free to express what our future freedom should be
To critise all tha…

I am the mage of
eyes, a crying clown
in the house of sorrows
do you remember me
when I was there
at the pylon of a million bleeding dreams,
and in the lighthouse the keeper moves us all…