Reanimated Lavender Granola Switchblade Nun rides again.

Tuesday, December 17, 2013

monster

Verse

See the crone that comes
through the thorn-walk and the breaks,
with a ribbon for the coffin key
and a dead-scroll curled with snakes,

she will never die.
she will never die.
roll her bones through the catacombs--
she hasn't the grace to die.

Inverse

My eyes were tired, so I set them soft
in the cotton-bedded heart of a pale red box;
deep under the earth with the coldsong quick,
was nothing--and nothing--I reveled in it.

Verse

Hear the crone who lies
with a dead tongue, poison-sweet,
words chopped blind with a kitchen knife
tourniquet-wrapped and awfully neat.

her teeth in the flesh
her teeth in the flesh
slips gangrene dreams through the finest screens
making rot-milk sold as fresh.

Inverse

My soul was sick, so I intertwined
its feminine face with androgyne,
to speak itself twice in a language of thorns
to bleed--to bear--where vermilion's born.

Verse

Bury the crone who's filled
with a paste of hate in her hollow bones,
a candle kept in the bag of her gut
to wax the devil a hag-head stone.

she will never die.
she will never die.
resurrected, insane, infected,
she hasn't the grace to die.
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13 comments:

  1. A terrifying chant, incantation, string of power-words...one hopes that the narrator can marshal a counterspell and somehow find the stake that goes through the heart of the Undying and finally turns the specter to corpse-powder. Hellish, yet terribly beautiful in the purity of its vision.

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  2. Brilliant, the tired eyes in the pale red box. No idea how all of these astounding images come to you so freely every single day. It is fantastic to read you.

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  3. awesome post! what a terrific photo!
    happy tuesday~

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  4. filled me with foreboding and admiration, you witch! So full of psychology mysticism and my fears


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  5. I busted out my guitar and sang this along to a slow progression of C,D,A,G chords. It was very avant garde ;-) Great post!

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  6. "she hasn't the grace to die"

    brilliant line!

    (i thought you were havin' to work overtime ~ how can you still be fuckin' writing amazing poetry? it's not fair!!!) (care for some of my whine to go with your cheese?)

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  7. This is such a well-conceived poem, Shay. Packed with arcane imagery and a sustained voice throughout - very chilling. I love your idea of the Verse and the Diverse. I wish I came up with such brilliant ideas.

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  8. Oh, this was pure magic, Shay. The imagery and the words (you always so carefully carefully choose) perfection.

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  9. such an excellent weave and spell cast by a V.cool concept as I see it Shay. great word choices in a smart and stylish structure that appeals to my eye for originality in expression but with enough familiarity to force me to come to the conclusion that this is a crackling fusion of weave and spell crafted to last in the depths of a well, as yet unrecognised by 'the real'. all the best, arron

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  10. I agree with Myheartslovesongs. Aren't you bogged down with delivering Christmas cards and packages?

    Apparently not and fortunately for your readers but unfortunately not for your enviers...

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  11. I feel possessed now-I know her brother! I love the pale red box-you aligned magic in the mayhem!

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  12. This is a beautiful, mad incantation. Flawless.

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  13. this crone needs no newt's eyes or other useless baubles: her tongue alone wields the power. what a write! ~

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