Tag: gothic
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Times
Nuke’s top 5 nights Frightening sights as delight grim idols idling in ice cases In deep crevasses left by the recession of Hyperborean ages Awaiting lightless days Hounds bay at day’s drowning Alluring, abusive night climbs like a spider sky to horizon spine On my desk, before the window, a single candle burns Pervading darkness…
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Flyer Tour of Hell
I have drunk sacred ox blood and fasted long to cleanse toxins Three days spent encoffined so that cough-inducing atmosphere at fox-red origin of all poxes and toxins does not instantly rob me of life I blessed my knife and prayed never to draw it Impressed brands to my naked chest, mark forever etched there…
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Soul Sucking Doll
Bought an evil doll She feigned to borrow Then stole a soul Swallowed whole Black hole maw gnawing On one’s immortal spirit. Muse, tell through me the facepaling tale of the living fetish Fetch me apt words I might out wretched scripts ripped from the crypt-heart of hell where cryptarchs rest for chiliarches awaiting the…
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World on the March
From the vantage of a top window I watch khaki ants vanish Factions action bound make passage Leaving in jolly batches, in patchwork and motley Returning in patch and blood-blotted bandage Hand in hand the gas damaged living in the land of Nod Distant action A sense of traction, of freefall Inked names suffer no…
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Winter Ride to the Lodge
Sheets of sight-stealing snow A sheep’s coat covering steals the road and sense of route Barely seen behind his coat the driver spits rudely Cracks his crop to break the horse unruly Alexander hiding Bucephalus’ shadow A single jewel kings his finger, gained unduly Ejects starlight, the duel of sun and dew The Holly laughing…
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