there are plum bruises across the sky and mountains burnt white with faded sun and there’s a path seared sharp into the pines that brightens as the sky dims.
there’s a nameless man beneath the gallows squatting like a carrion-bird at a ****. a smile splits his face like a wound there’s blood like spilled wine, great grinning pools of it, and the snows are thirsty to drink
and there’s a woman with a story like a knife and nothing to lose, and she sharpens her words and follows the fraying path into the woods.