#6 of Poetry
Hard to say without giving everything away.
Leviathan
I had seen it for miles, the titan,
Beautiful as scales on a dreaming snake,
Sublime like the heartbeat of a Howitzer
Shaking something unseen deep in the breath
Of the sky and trembling heat of the earth.
Hundreds, with open mouths and eager eyes
Devoured its magnitude, echoes of
Their awe infected me, unraveled me.
I felt the turgid weight pulsing beneath,
Inside me.
Maelstrom Listening close, I count the stalking steps; The echoes seem to shake the shore beneath. I tense as thunder bathes me in its breath, Gripping grass as the wind pulls it from me. Crying mutely, I stare up at the sky, Its flank heaving as...
The Isle of Echoes Dreaming Horizon Eyes rolling in the sockets of the sky's skull The shore shudders, name scrawled in blood On the ocean, sapphire sepulchre Where the whispers writhe between waking and Sleeping Catholicon for convulsions of...
We Used to be Wild I was swallowed whole by your howl. A spectre, the sun rose. I remember the tremor, midnight feathers aquiver when you found me. Yawning maw filled with wind and the sheen of your fangs. You scented past my silence, my...