Wolf and Crow

Wandering Woods Wistfully

I am crow
Born from wolf
I am divine because of his spirit
Sprung from the saliva and foam of his pungent breath
Shaped from the curve and bend of his fissured bones
Night creature creeping quietly
Nuanced howling blanketing the Universe
Stars begging to cradle such crystallized, cadenced meaning…
Resplendent in form; Obsidian mind and mane –
Sheer, fluid spirit that roamed mountains and hillsides, meadows and valleys
Springs and rivers, catacombs and caves
Light and dark, hearths and gravesides
With incarnate eyes, piercing facets, seer of butterfly wings and hurricanes
Feral connection with the intangible; Visions… the knowing of
A ghostless humanity; Having stoned the simplicity of Love

– A seasoned soul in a primitive nature –
No myth or magical burden
I am divine because of his spirit
His silence and thoughtful gazings; Ritualistic empathy
Beneath dry, blistering, desert skies, sparse, withered and frigid –
Having forgotten that Atlas bothered…
Fevered molecules choking compassion
Suffocating a disintegrating humanity, its deviated attachment in meltdown…
Alone, wolf followed a fallow moon
Crouching, crawling, running through the briars
Ornate eyes peering at the treetops, always watchful, mindful
Hunted, he never wavered in his protection –
Despite death dreams in my narrowed, haunted eyes
And a lingering feeling of lethality tugging at my wings
His presence swelling in my visions: Will you soar, despite your burdens?
Your word is like God, he reminds me
I can’t feel the wind below my wings, nor the mountains beneath my feet, I answer
Trust what you seek, what you build and what you tear away, he reminds me
I am every breath you breathe, every thought you allow, every energy that you give
My fur, my blood, my bones, my eyes –
I howl
My heat, rhythm, spark, furor, softness, wild –
My love holds the sky for you
With its layers and washes of oranges and crimsons, fans of violets, blues, greys, obsidians…
And its dimensions of shadows, specters, corpses, reapers, and the light inbetween…
I am wolf
You are crow
My child, Myself, My love
Arrogant eyes
Suffer the betrayed, be they beast or human, to receive the perfume of infinity
I fear nothing, for everything has a purpose, he murmured against my cheek
As the moon and the stars lit the way for my tears

I look to the sky; It is my living religion
I feel the wind below my wings and the mountain beneath my feet
Closing my eyes, deep breath… I dive…
I soar

I am crow
Born of wolf
I am divine because of his spirit

Manual on the Effects of Alcohol-Tainted Love on Children

Tomb of Tears Traveling Time

Friday vortex right on time
2am smell of sweet perfume whispers dreams away
Platinum curls nudge doll eyes wide, small bones nestled in sugared cherry fields lament this offending intrusion
But even a silky cocoon can’t withstand a wormwood stars bitter ocean…
She turns those lush-lashed cat eyes onto squirming seraphs; Eyes that have eroded into a florescent, olive-tinted hallway leading to a noxious neverland
Toads house fallen into ill repute; Green Hour bewitching
Where he falls into a taste of his lost mind
Hush
Don’t stray from the path my love, stay safe, my love
Path? Safe is always doled out in rations behind overgrown hedges dotting this maze
This crashing aftermath makes no distinctions –
The yellow brick road is bleeding red left and right of the fork
And those warm, soft fingers stroking lamb dreams awake…
To try and quiet her pandemonium –
Smother the inebriated love that has led to this empty bed
Bring the wind to dry his thirst…
She gathers tender years into the fiendish minutes, sutures their tears with frayed laces
Shakespeares’ foul pen dismembering innocence –
Condemning innocents…
It’s cold in this rat-hole town
Where windows are floors that are doors in the ground
Where silence is screaming
That the moon is gleaning, from piled up bones, bitter wreathes, bloodless stones –
That drunken schematics and rage skews loves meaning
Slippery tracks down barren alleyways
Four caterpillars tossed in the throes, turning grey
She drives into the blue, then steps into the haze
Rusty metal doors swallowing her light
It’s going to be a typical early, late, late night –
Pulling on his shadow while it puts up a fight
Back in the house of harm; Glass, wood and plaster all collide
Wincing and cringing
Feels like bad things are winning
Terror-eyes wishes the night
Would wrap itself up into the light
Funny, little one never thought to tell someone
It was just life; It unfolded with no rational premise on its breath
She did tell herself not to feel different, but talons clutch like hawk onto fish
Sometimes that’s just the way it is
It’s a shame that childhood abandons some children
Duck, duck, goose… Uh oh, you lose…
Cuts the light from their innocence with rusted scissors
Lobotomizes their angelic eyes
Whispers cruelties in their tiny ears
Wide-eyed terror peering through cracked bedroom door until –
Running toward the hem of a rustling skirt, tiny creatures try to catch loves falling petals before they’re trampled
Fruitless burden, looking up at the face of love gone impossible
Duck, duck, goose… Uh oh, you lose…
Rage so red that it’s trying to murder itself
Rage so ancient, a fifth of holy water won’t excise infinities putrid webworms, digging deep, binding, keep…
The burning never stops, because the tormented flees the torment by ushering in torment… liquid so bitter that it’s sweet…
So the circle rings the sun, which sets the world on fire, leaves charred, cracked ruins –
Burnt tears meted by an itchy, trembling hand, holding its everlasting flower; Its absinthe angel with greedy eyes
2am… she’s gone now, and to this day, in morbid dream or wide awake; His drunken spark sets flame…
No tiny creature should ever have to try to catch loves falling petals…

Amaranth

Rearview Retrospect, Rearrange, Reassemble, Redirect

I was an island
You were the sea
A torrent, a torment crashing into me
Moon made at midnight but our mystical explosion had no shadow in the searing sun –
Obscure… Obscure! No morphine, no cure!
Just a vague murmur in the wind; Hush, hush –
Hushed… like that blue betta on the floor,
Your secret doll; I sew my lips shut after I gorge myself on emptiness
Your mouth hot on mine, devouring, you lick my blood from your lips –
I’m a fatality, a vacant madness like your faraway eyes –
Those eyes that never look at me ferociously
Speaking without words, like exquisite crashing stars, soul into soul, undeniably
The – Most – Sweet – Est – Pain…
A love letter gaze, embers bursting into a sultry wildfire, scorching the page…
Poetry in cursive wind-caught pieces like fireflies in the air
Instead of blurry passages –
Love unwritten by your hand, hopeless devastation penned… in… intangible form
Sliding through my slippery, betrayal-drenched fingers –
As if my love was an insult
An appalling violence that must be silenced; You bled dry its sacredness into your silver cup
Amnesia dripping sweet between your lips
I exhaled my pain to the world but she threw my burden back at me
Citing irreconcilable fixations; razorblades and pulsing veins
I do well at choosing vacant eyes –
I do well at sacrifice, lift my wrists up to your blade, and you, no different –
Kissed her lips after kissing mine…
Tracked my pain across the bedroom floor; Prowling after a 9 pill high
Your rapid, brutal migration from all that we were
A spiraling reflection of our tearing shadows
Regret is a ghost; I hope it haunts your mind; Rubs you raw right to the bone
Seduces you into its bed, then kisses my name against your neck all night long
Moon falling sucks the stars from our night eyes –
Perforated pupils punched out like pretty paper dolls
Love riddled with abrasions; Put your savage soul back in its cage –
I’m handing you my last breath; I’ve heard that dyings all the rage
This feral web ruthlessly binds, this rusted blade won’t even slice my skin!
Death can be deadly, but beautiful; You did a thorough job on my dismemberment
Come kiss my scathing scars, while the shade of death wraps me like lace
I have no name, I never did; just two eyes without a face
Finish what you started; You know what comes next
The windows broken to my soul anyway…
I’ll never be your amaranth
I was an island
You were the sea
A torrent, a torment crashing into me
Smothered flame, bludgeoned love, wasted blood…
Blistered dreams, incinerated trust, fractured soul…
Cold steel blade plunging deep, behind a lovers silky smile…

Betrayal a callous place no mortal being should ever go

*Amaranth: purple imaginary flower that supposedly never fades.