Tag: senryu

before dawn the fathers of night would trek across the sky extinguishing starmites none would be allowed to outshine their child the moon blinking stars are the battles fought and the ones who still shine can only count their days

do you vow to travel the rust void and beyond to the dead dwarf star and retrieve your kin’s kris

the goblin who drowned in dragon’s fire at the banquet table emerges a god cursed by starvation

in the glassfang meadows the shepherd of flesh is a beast without mercy

one eye sees too much: burn bloom become

look within and ask what will the quiet birth this spring night

flesh stilled by glass spires stabbing at the dark side of the moon

the sky is not blue but the memory of a pale god unmade

i see the future not the way you do an alternate reality that creeps on you in slow pulsating waves of stupor

dusk the forest full of ghosts who will sip your name from bones