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"acolyte" poems
Saturated in steely blue clutches, sweating from the 75 degree Georgia night strung up and washed out with a serpent woman that keeps bringing on the blight Singing you a song of bliss and blinders. A big brick red boot on your neck and a green collar that reads The Gardens ***** The Garden takes the taxes tightens up the lead and never relaxes Hit ya where ya like, the pain is disguised, leather tastes like candy, The Gardens got ya hypnotized. Your late night camping sight attracts the moon light parasite, that acolyte of appetite, Tonight your the Gardens Delight You wanna run but she's got those hooks between your shoulder blades feeling like an inexorable **** of silk, smoke and skin. She gives you every thing you need, Fountain heads of intemperance and black out nights Whole streets smelling like grease and charcoal charbroils Men and women of dexterous lechery, feverous severance, and generous deference Crystals for your cranium, high altitude dives and the lowest lows. A cacophony of any entertainment you might want or need, just as long as its seedy. The Garden keeps blinders on your head to make sure you can't see anything she doesn't want you to. Try to remove em and the punishment is usually severe. She might give you the greatest loves you've ever known and turn em to photographs, blot em with LSD and trip you out on memories. And when you come back to what you think reality is she'll take those photographs and burn em up right in your face and leave you asking if any of it really happened while feeling like it was the realest thing that ever has. She'll break you and build you up, build you up and break you worse. A cycle of bad things feeling real good. The Garden will do everything in her power to keep you right here. But if you can get all those straps and tight leather off, all those hooks and chains.. If you can escape her steely blue clutches,, You'll finally see how wrong you've been done, and your still gonna want her back in some strange way.. but you might start to heal.... But know this. No matter where you might run off to, You'll still be hearing The Garden City call. That siren song of bliss and blinders.
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Mar 23, 2017
Mar 23, 2017 at 4:27 AM UTC
Augusta, GA
Saturated in steely blue clutches, sweating from the 75 degree Georgia night strung up and washed out with a serpent woman that keeps bringing on the blight Singing you a song of bliss and blinders. A big brick red boot on your neck and a green collar that reads The Gardens ***** The Garden takes the taxes tightens up the lead and never relaxes Hit ya where ya like, the pain is disguised, leather tastes like candy, The Gardens got ya hypnotized. Your late night camping sight attracts the moon light parasite, that acolyte of appetite, Tonight your the Gardens Delight You wanna run but she's got those hooks between your shoulder blades feeling like an inexorable **** of silk, smoke and skin. She gives you every thing you need, Fountain heads of intemperance and black out nights Whole streets smelling like grease and charcoal charbroils Men and women of dexterous lechery, feverous severance, and generous deference Crystals for your cranium, high altitude dives and the lowest lows. A cacophony of any entertainment you might want or need, just as long as its seedy. The Garden keeps blinders on your head to make sure you can't see anything she doesn't want you to. Try to remove em and the punishment is usually severe. She might give you the greatest loves you've ever known and turn em to photographs, blot em with LSD and trip you out on memories. And when you come back to what you think reality is she'll take those photographs and burn em up right in your face and leave you asking if any of it really happened while feeling like it was the realest thing that ever has. She'll break you and build you up, build you up and break you worse. A cycle of bad things feeling real good. The Garden will do everything in her power to keep you right here. But if you can get all those straps and tight leather off, all those hooks and chains.. If you can escape her steely blue clutches,, You'll finally see how wrong you've been done, and your still gonna want her back in some strange way.. but you might start to heal.... But know this. No matter where you might run off to, You'll still be hearing The Garden City call. That siren song of bliss and blinders.
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Between the brown hands of a server-lad The silver cross was offered to be kissed. The men came up, lugubrious, but not sad, And knelt reluctantly, half-prejudiced. (And kissing, kissed the emblem of a creed.) Then mourning women knelt; meek mouths they had, (And kissed the Body of the Christ indeed.) Young children came, with eager lips and glad. (These kissed a silver doll, immensely bright.) Then I, too, knelt before that acolyte. Above the crucifix I bent my head: The Christ was thin, and cold, and very dead: And yet I bowed, yea, kissed - my lips did cling. (I kissed the warm live hand that held the thing.)
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Maundy Thursday
A picture of your mother dull colors of a bygone era a polaroid born faded a memory bestowed upon you by another a hearsay tale long lost in time more far than you can count on fingers she smiles a smile reserved for the unburdened you wonder when this woman is she looks happy A finger painting of your mother all colors watered down a reminder that you must prioritize some things carry more meaning other need meaning poured onto them cupped like water in both hands presented to a lip-cracked child some water saturate the soul while keeping others thirsty some colors are skin deep Your mother, wrapped in blankets in an almost vacant bed her paint, dry and life-bleached you sit with her through all these final hours watching as the outer coating peels off and settles to the floor solemnly, you sweep the flakes an acolyte on hallow ground choosing the most beautiful pasting to a piece of paper crafting the image of a woman that once could have been your mom
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Dec 23, 2018
Dec 23, 2018 at 2:08 PM UTC
Mother
shapeshifter, son drunk & changing skins. he digs up skeletons of a spanish battalion buried by tigers on the garden key. suncresent spray of blood & oranges. new-fangled sailors once soaked in madness. now just starvation. the viking speaks: in limericks of new world poise. his antler woven mask, set nicely upon the shore. seod, turtle lord of space & time, appears only once every lunar eclipse. bound by treatise to the jellyfish triumvirate. his acolyte, bolivar t. shagnasty, wanders the mainland in search of water or meat of trees. kindness of men turns to dust & belly worms. forgotten, the plants mutate into root-rich empires of fish & figurine. million year armistice. dr. samuel mudd, shackled years to tide-slab & fort jefferson. he purifies the island of its yellow shivering death. hospital key. fastforward hundred plus years through mudd lifeline: battle weary sneakers, spokes sung by strum of card, the bmx stridden boy & his teenage mutant ninja turtle mask.
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Apr 25, 2014
Apr 25, 2014 at 4:55 PM UTC
dry tortugas, 1869
*** I see thine image through my tears to-night, And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How Refer the cause?—Beloved, is it thou Or I, who makes me sad? The acolyte Amid the chanted joy and thankful rite May so fall flat, with pale insensate brow, On the altar-stair. I hear thy voice and vow, Perplexed, uncertain, since thou art out of sight, As he, in his swooning ears, the choir’s Amen. Beloved, dost thou love? or did I see all The glory as I dreamed, and fainted when Too vehement light dilated my ideal, For my soul’s eyes? Will that light come again, As now these tears come—falling hot and real?
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Sonnet 30 - I See Thine Image Through My Tears To-Night
Armed and rightly dangerous religious and slightly pugnacious on the sidewalk the talk's of the testament the rent being due on a Sunday. Molly, the soothsayer tells me that heaven is mine if I could be an acolyte of the almighty. My fiance is the goddess I pray to she's the light that I see when the day's through and the hope that I seek and I cling to.
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Nov 15, 2015
Nov 15, 2015 at 2:57 AM UTC
Evangelist
Walking up the rickety stairs, Patchouli and cigarette smoke combat for supremacy Before I even reach the door, and I step through to see The everyday undead scattered on the thick carpet like so many corpses blown out of Wednesday Addams' haunted dollhouse. Maybe it wasn't wise to come. A cd player informs me that, indeed, Bela Lugosi's dead, And I cautiously move into the living room. Ruby lips and ivory faces emerge from the gloom, Incurious glances marking my progress As an acolyte guides me to the Queen of the festivities Holding court in a corner of the living room. Her waist-length silver-gilt hair and damp skin like fresh camellias gleam in the candlelight, A studded black goblet brimming with Jack Daniels Is handed to her, A token of homage she eagerly welcomes    while nodding me forward. Whispers behind me tell her story, Of how she's seen a thing or two in her time, And why her flat stare and Theda Bara smile give glimpses of her bottomless occult wisdom. As her slim fingers play with a knotted black necklace, She considers me long before finally declaring, --"My God, you're an old soul"-- And she pats the cushion next to her, An invitation to drink deep and close of her dark knowledge. A cup of something unknown is pressed into my hand and I sip, hanging onto every arcane word she utters. Night slowly fades into dawn and I wake cold and stiff from a kitchen floor sleep only to see the Queen buttoning the cuffs on her white poplin shirt. Smoothing her tweed skirt, she steps into her pumps, Grips her cup of coffee, And with a cheery wave, leaves for work.
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Oct 19, 2020
Oct 19, 2020 at 3:42 AM UTC
Samhain
Walking up the rickety stairs, Patchouli and cigarette smoke combat for supremacy Before I even reach the door, and I step through to see The everyday undead scattered on the thick carpet like so many corpses blown out of Wednesday Addams' haunted dollhouse. Maybe it wasn't wise to come. A cd player informs me that, indeed, Bela Lugosi's dead, And I cautiously move into the living room. Ruby lips and ivory faces emerge from the gloom, Incurious glances marking my progress As an acolyte guides me to the Queen of the festivities Holding court in a corner of the living room. Her waist-length silver-gilt hair and damp skin like fresh camellias gleam in the candlelight, A studded black goblet brimming with Jack Daniels Is handed to her, A token of homage she eagerly welcomes    while nodding me forward. Whispers behind me tell her story, Of how she's seen a thing or two in her time, And why her flat stare and Theda Bara smile give glimpses of her bottomless occult wisdom. As her slim fingers play with a knotted black necklace, She considers me long before finally declaring, --"My God, you're an old soul"-- And she pats the cushion next to her, An invitation to drink deep and close of her dark knowledge. A cup of something unknown is pressed into my hand and I sip, hanging onto every arcane word she utters. Night slowly fades into dawn and I wake cold and stiff from a kitchen floor sleep only to see the Queen buttoning the cuffs on her white poplin shirt. Smoothing her tweed skirt, she steps into her pumps, Grips her cup of coffee, And with a cheery wave, leaves for work.
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a confessional screen chambered in opaques                         the pearly gates would sport checkers sovereignty with grime between myself                and the other side of this poem another acolyte had founted              from our species-widened narthex-maw                               the answer to the test                                     the answer i have tested since despite the veto of a roshi's sleeve while adults justify in frowns and threats commandment-etched i am a child still            aghast at drawing lines in sand to mark the living                                            from the soon to die one i knew who drew such lines                                                for whom a line was drawn to mark himself as well not just in votes and homeland hate-speech you see he crossed the line                         no unadulterated childhood can cross he shot  his  own  face                               or at least his face was shot                 when he was found who can read the final lonely moments of another                                                  when mistakes are easier than ownmost acts ? bombing bullies politicking death                  can sanctify the safe unpunctuated traps                      dividing moods in swallows pills swilled with undigested fear                                    of nozzled death mercilessly sudden .
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Oct 6, 2013
Oct 6, 2013 at 2:18 PM UTC
ideologies from warring states at peace
a confessional screen chambered in opaques                         the pearly gates would sport checkers sovereignty with grime between myself                and the other side of this poem another acolyte had founted              from our species-widened narthex-maw                               the answer to the test                                     the answer i have tested since despite the veto of a roshi's sleeve while adults justify in frowns and threats commandment-etched i am a child still            aghast at drawing lines in sand to mark the living                                            from the soon to die one i knew who drew such lines                                                for whom a line was drawn to mark himself as well not just in votes and homeland hate-speech you see he crossed the line                         no unadulterated childhood can cross he shot  his  own  face                               or at least his face was shot                 when he was found who can read the final lonely moments of another                                                  when mistakes are easier than ownmost acts ? bombing bullies politicking death                  can sanctify the safe unpunctuated traps                      dividing moods in swallows pills swilled with undigested fear                                    of nozzled death mercilessly sudden .
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i hear the whistle of a mockingjay  play every time someone says your name. a rebel girl in a patriarchal world  defying the absurd iterations of hyper-masculine  oppression that manifest themselves in solipsistic displays of impotent aggression. how do you muster the compassion  to forgive seventy times seven? i want to learn to love like you. the white noise fades away when you and i fly down the interstate. the breeze teases  your hair, the sun kisses your face the way i'd like to. i hope you hear my voice every time one of our favorite songs gets stuck inside your head, singing in time to the rhythms of love requited.  have faith in me. and i'm trying hard— real hard—every day not to lose my temper  with these circumstantial quandaries  that leave us wondering whether or not  we should press pause. instead i'll climb the mountains  of your vertebrae so i might find a resting place in the holiest of holies.  if only i could shrink myself down, dance between the synaptic gaps of your brain cells,  i could see reality through your eyes—  twirling like twin nebulae, galaxies inviting me to endless epiphanies. i want to lose myself in your universe. your courage is infectious. when i hold your hand, i summon the strength to smash the State  and all the arbitrary authorities   trying to dictate the limits of liberty, that instigate injustice and propagate malice. it all just falls away until it's you and me, forever us against them all. you're like Hermione, time-turner included, feeding the homeless,  leading a women's health group, acting for a short film,  directing a play,  writing a novel,  all in a day's work.  and you breathe white-hot fire  when you fight for the disenfranchised  recognizing that those who are neutral  in situations of injustice have chosen the side of the oppressor and it's quite  impressive how you stand-up for the little guy or invite the social acolyte over to your table to have a bite of whatever  vegetarian dish you cooked up last night. i see you on the silver screen, in each new book i read , in every single note i sing, latent remnants in recited rhymes  of poetry from the one and only Bukowski: i found what i love  and i want it to **** me.
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Dec 28, 2015
Dec 28, 2015 at 7:54 AM UTC
mockingjay
i hear the whistle of a mockingjay  play every time someone says your name. a rebel girl in a patriarchal world  defying the absurd iterations of hyper-masculine  oppression that manifest themselves in solipsistic displays of impotent aggression. how do you muster the compassion  to forgive seventy times seven? i want to learn to love like you. the white noise fades away when you and i fly down the interstate. the breeze teases  your hair, the sun kisses your face the way i'd like to. i hope you hear my voice every time one of our favorite songs gets stuck inside your head, singing in time to the rhythms of love requited.  have faith in me. and i'm trying hard— real hard—every day not to lose my temper  with these circumstantial quandaries  that leave us wondering whether or not  we should press pause. instead i'll climb the mountains  of your vertebrae so i might find a resting place in the holiest of holies.  if only i could shrink myself down, dance between the synaptic gaps of your brain cells,  i could see reality through your eyes—  twirling like twin nebulae, galaxies inviting me to endless epiphanies. i want to lose myself in your universe. your courage is infectious. when i hold your hand, i summon the strength to smash the State  and all the arbitrary authorities   trying to dictate the limits of liberty, that instigate injustice and propagate malice. it all just falls away until it's you and me, forever us against them all. you're like Hermione, time-turner included, feeding the homeless,  leading a women's health group, acting for a short film,  directing a play,  writing a novel,  all in a day's work.  and you breathe white-hot fire  when you fight for the disenfranchised  recognizing that those who are neutral  in situations of injustice have chosen the side of the oppressor and it's quite  impressive how you stand-up for the little guy or invite the social acolyte over to your table to have a bite of whatever  vegetarian dish you cooked up last night. i see you on the silver screen, in each new book i read , in every single note i sing, latent remnants in recited rhymes  of poetry from the one and only Bukowski: i found what i love  and i want it to **** me.
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I'm terrified of not having at least one secret that only I know. Saturn moves into capricorn as  conqueror rather than lover. I keep drawing the tower card. Space has no boundary. Down is relative. We know, then, that it is entirely possible to just keep falling. Indefinitely. Devils roam free in the sixth house. I've been drawing the tower card. I keep drawing the tower card. The snake I am is not the snake I was. Tower card. Tower card. "Mama, some pieces are missing from this puzzle." "Only the piece with the eyes printed on it, baby." Drawing from memory, now. Come on and touch this broken husk before it crumbles away to dust, and something different is left sitting at the foot of your bed. Inevitability. Might be that there is no Heaven, but there are certainly heavens.
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Apr 29, 2018
Apr 29, 2018 at 4:58 PM UTC
The Acolyte
Eyes of anthracite, ignite- Fuel for my waning spirit Food for my hungry soul. Her rays mirrored sunlight, And I, a humble acolyte: Happily dirtying myself to worship coal. The decades of pressure Stifling in leisure, tiny slivers of pleasure. Harsh force of demand. Idle gem, form of a diamond: Unaware of her own worth. How often, is ignorance our ruin And ourselves, our own undoing. To eat our own words: How it hurts
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Oct 22, 2023
Oct 22, 2023 at 4:36 PM UTC
Hair Of Black, Eyes Of Hazel
By: Cedric McClester Lindsey Graham should be ashamed For saying Trump’s unfairly blamed In this inquiry, as he’s claimed Though to him it’s all the same Lindsey’s Trump’s favorite acolyte Pretending everything’s alright But what’s done in the dark of night Will come out in the daylight Linsey Graham’s now full of stuffing See these days he doesn’t stand for nothing When he criticized Trump, was he bluffing? Like your average ragamuffin Lindsey Graham once had some pride Now he doesn’t, but you decide Should he be reelected or denied When good judgement is applied Graham’s not who he used to be And that’s plain enough to see So if he’d get up off his knee Maybe then he would be free But Lindsey does like his golf Ask Guiliani, as in Rudolph Who has bitten more than he can chew off So now we view him as screw-off Lindsey Graham has gone crackers Just the same as most Trump backers And I guess that directly factors In the thoughts of his detractors He’s clearly not the senator That he used to be before An idiosyncrasy we can’t ignore Let me stop now, although there's more              Cedric McClester, Copyright © 2019.  All rights reserved.
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Oct 23, 2019
Oct 23, 2019 at 4:45 PM UTC
LINDSEY GRAHAM
Long ginger muzzle eyes burning through the copse, fixed upon the snuffling vole eating grubs in the moonlight,fangs like stunted darning needles revealed in its widening jaw. hunching in the grass it crawled cautiously forward and pounced like a god on an acolyte quenching blood-lust- the fox ate again that night.
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Aug 19, 2016
Aug 19, 2016 at 5:53 PM UTC
HUNT
Do not look sadly at days gone by days below days like a river running under stars do not listen to priests, the blues or that bitter veteran fool of some past war claiming to miss a piece of his soul, his only disease is the rotting of an ******* the poet that forgets in remembrance of you is a lunatic's left hand man a gun in the hands of a fool on Sundays he is the acolyte of the moon, night following other nights, the eyes of the blind the stranger who  lusts after wives his tool the bitter root of a persimmon tree and every time he draws his pen like a knife and drawls his soliloquy I say forget him, let us drink again for poets do not cut their fingers at cheap joints like ****** toasting one another's death they do not eat the cheese or hoard the rich black bread of their poetry; the true poet gives it kindly to the poor.
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Jun 1, 2017
Jun 1, 2017 at 11:55 PM UTC
Black bread, kindly
Be not my altarpiece. You are no ritual implement with which I commit religion. You are given (of and by yourself) to (no cherub or elf but) a being (human) this feeling (this numen) Free as any altarpiece found alone on seascape vistas far away from the clamor of symbols Be not my leader nor acolyte, we've too many paces to walk tonight, for you not to be by my side. I'll settle for no projection. No, I'll settle not at all; for the fall is slow, and I'm caught like so many motes, so much dust suspended in your transparency Dancing. Be not my altarpiece. You breathe in your sleep too sweetly to be anything other than this moment (as it repeats me)
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Feb 20, 2014
Feb 20, 2014 at 2:21 PM UTC
Be not my Altarpiece
A stone lies shadowed at morning, Its figures carved long like the shore. An acolyte lies on it, yearning, For flames that stoke now no more. This birthright, he sold for quiet, A peace but traded for pride, His scorns, his scar - once scarlet, Now fades: and so his stride! To which the eastward sun, foreseen, Blinks by the shade, above, Tracing the vestige of figures beneath, And their voices that beckoned thereof: “To the Sun belongs the truest light, “And with it, heard let, and be, “The fire of men was not for fight, “But the fight sealed tight in he.”
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Sep 5, 2015
Sep 5, 2015 at 1:27 AM UTC
Zuko
His favorite protégée Mentors her day by day You are his curious delight You're always affable And so unflappable Yes you're his favorite acolyte Though your aura's sacred chic Radiating cool mystique Your life story does bespeak Constant fight His patronage for your art Remains for you're his dear heart Shine favorite protégée shine Rejoice that your lives intertwine
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Nov 22, 2019
Nov 22, 2019 at 4:12 PM UTC
Favorite Protégée
Flowing like a river does, Straight into the ocean, I embrace my inner self With a calm devotion. Winding roads and rolling fields, Them I see aplenty. Lethe is my acolyte, Them I have a twenty. I’m the current and the brine, Nourishing and ageless. Slipping through your hands like time, Cleansing bitter rages. Sifting through the memories, Finding those of merit… Love me like a river does - Light is there to share it.
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Feb 10, 2018
Feb 10, 2018 at 9:38 PM UTC
River
The morning dew adorns her body as her charm begin to unfold a vibrant bloom of intoxicating proportions makes an impression dare and bold. dressed in a shade of the majestic ocean her grace softens the hardest of heart but her thorns absorb all the pain when her world's ripped apart. she captures an artist's mind when the canvas comes alive with her glory she 's a faithful acolyte of Nature In the morning breeze,she writes her story.
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Mar 14, 2013
Mar 14, 2013 at 9:06 AM UTC
Blue Rose
Acolyte of ancient kings, Student of the primal scribe, Sacred bird that ever sings, Words no man can now describe. Offspring of this fledgling realm, Sailor of the modern way, Faceless masters at the helm, Shaping out this brand new day. Seeker of the inner truth, Writer of the dark within, Chronicles back to my youth, Memoirs for my future kin.
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Sep 8, 2011
Sep 8, 2011 at 2:00 PM UTC
Mutambo
*let me tell you now just how i saw you: you wooed the world with your sublime figure accentuated by that supreme  walk of art in life that became you so well in love without strife i saw and felt the beauty reposed in you but how futile and hapless now this belated lyric to you you must have come from a constellation of stars your name should have been stella or estelle queen of the skies who made earth her chosen abode and walked upon it like a storybook queen you spoke like a fabulous heartthrob and had us transfixed like pilgrims in worship your enigmatic gaze was magnetic wafting but unseen incense oozed from your nostrils as milk and honey danced upon your lips later to nourish my thoughts and limbs in the solitude of early evening as venus began to rise in truth you were a goddess on sabbatical and your fabled home is in the cosmic mists of time where i hunger to be a devoted acolyte in your service forever chanting the treasured words: it is well*
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Jan 5, 2016
Jan 5, 2016 at 3:11 PM UTC
eulogy
The furrows are drying in a woodlouse summer. Each quiet year proves they were inexpertly dug. Empty eye sockets the flowerbeds shrivel and each tulip bulb is just a useless ******** Earthworks crumble into riverbanks, the defective rock dances bed-ward. The clay browns the water. In the dusty corridors of sunlight we are the balled up little hedgehog late for the earthworm and the screen-saver, bouncing but never touching the corner. I’ve sat dumb and still as words dwindle on a screen. Somewhere else hands delve into crowns of sticky, soaked poppy. Wet and soft they stink of sugar. Liberated calves with liberated hoofs gambol in mud and rough tongues curl on apple picking fingers. Slugs glisten With fairy-tale arrogance. Happy and fat in a giant’s vegetable patch. Somewhere else the smell of low-tide isn’t a crusting of salt, seagulls, ******* and a reminder of torpid shallows but profound ovulation. Nesting puffins, shearwaters, an ocean view cottage. Shepard’s peachy sky. Summer is willing. Keep calm. Count her freckles. I’ve walked through the forest seen hearts in trees. Bark grows, gold stars roll and the guileless acolyte, not hungry but dry bends over a keyboard and counts an orchard’s wealth in slushy apples. Mud and sand on the carpet. Eyes sticky and red. Not black.
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Aug 2, 2017
Aug 2, 2017 at 12:30 PM UTC
Mud and Sand on the Carpet
*1 Creation Musical is life Strange order out of chaos Magic symphonies 2 Red Headed Sky Dim stars of heaven Such perfect imperfections Freckles on her face 3 Existence Fantasia of days All night long what dreams have come Misty morning sun 4 Passing Blindly saw it come With one touch she loved me whole Lost the world entire 5 Empyreal Winter never was Late morn her hair in my eyes Breeze through summer grass 6 Grey Love Dried flowers in vase Lovely garland she once gave No colours left now 7 Sunny Acolyte In corners of room Her heart shined so innocent Small plastic Buddhas*
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Dec 9, 2015
Dec 9, 2015 at 6:22 PM UTC
7 Seven Haiku
"Love is the worst religion," croons the dying television, with no further explanation; well, thanks for the news - I see myself in emptied glass, a bust carved rude and inchoate, poet, captain, lost apostle of the worst religion, baptized in changeling pools of day and week, scribbling my night's peak breath on the flypapers of insomnia. Sun over sainted skin, stars where evening eyes were, swain's vespers, all of it splitting like new ripe fruit in sticky hands of the acolyte, ardent hands of little silver.
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Apr 9, 2025
Apr 9, 2025 at 1:54 PM UTC
Vespers