It enters you
Like a ghost,
You release,
The night rises
In slow orbits,
Planets rise and fall
Behind a waning moon
Where pyramids
Dissolve
One grain at a time,
The sky holds
Their silence.
I breathe in
The gray syntax,
This toxic level
Through
The hourglass.
Whispered prayers
At 2:14,
Beseeched
Second graces.
And the Omniscient
Studies you,
You wonder
What fate
Follows you?
I list one way,
Then the other,
As the dead
Sing Oceans,
As my gloom
Follows room to room,
Leading to a cusp
Of shadow,
A fall
Beneath
The House
Of Usher.