Tag: fantasy

last words of someone close a leaf falls

the bread cracks and a traveller appears robed in the cloth of nightfall eyes burning amber and breath of brimstone asking for directions to a ruined keep of kings long before the children and wife gone awfully quiet in the stranger’s presence I raise a hand in the direction to go my eyes never leaving his as he turns just slightly but pauses and speaks in a low catlike whisper only for my ears: you have fought the likes of death care to join me?

autumn observation: shadows grow quicker in houses that forget to pray

where the river arches twice death forgets its duty

carve paths through the autumn mist the laughter of fae

mushrooms gather where thunder last told its story

umbrellas silver and black float into the rain into a world brushed madly in grey

the tethered stillness of this autumn morning earns its wreath and halo

fire’s final apology: beauty survives as dust and ash