You speak like willow wise Briefly about your dream You had descended on spider Satin to the Land of the dead and remained After eating a pomegranate Seed. Siren finned and black eyed Combing your long silver locks With the bone of a sailor Who crashed upon the sea rocks Now queen of the dead A maiden once Beloved kindred We mourn like winter over our Loss of your tender touch We're a dismembered brood. Spinning an old violin Humming a music-box carol Spinning pale blue spinning to The oceans tune Triumphantly swinging to Eternal slumber in a sleepy Melancholy Chthonic mistress weaving hymns For the dead Lullabies for flickering-by souls To march to in purgatory Haunted carousel with thrones Made of coral and seashell Pleasing is your disguise Fleeting like a butterfly Over a frosted lake Kissing the blue flowers Wilting as they weep Your dreams sound like Christmas lights Glazed Luna visions Redeemer of the night Guiding souls to caves Gateways to the underworld Bedecked in starshine Howling from the entrance Beseeching a worthy weight To add to a library of ghosts Wandering from the night Jade necklace on a sinewy neck Powdered-chalky scent in dew drop Dusk Absinthe spilled on a vanity set An old China vase cracked at the Spout Halos of oleander Eyes dilated ***** sips on a gentle decay The shades block out the day The paper lanterns shine luminous Rays of lavender Across lips curvaceous And rosy Cooing at each other with limbs Dripped in nectar From a divine waterfall Outside a window a Nocturnal wanderer on the street Of stone carrying a lantern to mourn His widow home