Invitation

Mist chilled his nape, as he traversed the puddled bridge; the tiny needles sought attention, but his focus was lost to the invitation below

QBD

scarred bark in the stark darkness a hinterland of rampikes hidden within lightning strikes beneath a wrothful sky fauna trample ample flora in a panic as the nimbi gaze with a watchful eye land eroding at the banks escape the downpour into a fresh moor as the river gorges on the earth icthyic dances underwater

The boy weeps

He weeps for the boy hiding deep within his eyes A boy born a teardrop, wept from mother sorrow As a child, out of mind, out of sight; so now he is never seen Taught to speak only when spoken to; so now he is never heard Taught to watch where he was going; so

Mighty Sequoia

Me: Mighty Sequoia, why is it that in all but the heaviest downpours, your roots remain dry? Sequoia: It is because the older I’ve gotten, the more I’ve grown, and the deeper my roots burrow into memory far away from the influence of the sky. Only the most unforgiving rain can churn the memories, muddying

Psithurism

For whom is the wind cheering, while the cackling leaves race playfully between the bare trees, across the frozen, forest floor

Sky garden

Picking pareidolia posies that blossom before his eyes, collecting clouds of magnolia from his garden in the skies

Gaps

He was only ever the gaps between noctilucent clouds; the spaces through which dreams escaped their masters on endless, starlit roads

Ink

The pen hovered above the page, her hand trembling from the weight of its unwritten words; befallen to torpidity, only her tears could write upon the parchment, everything the ink never would – ❖ – Empty to others, he read the tear-stained confession found rapaciously protecting her heart; and without a pen, he responded on

I Wish

I wish you were here I wish someone was here I wish anyone would hear

Insurgent sea

The slumberous, midnight sea heaves in a rhythmic undulation of atramentous silk; beneath the vigilant gaze of its empyreal guardians, it thrashes and churns with defiant dreams of conquering the night sky – ❖ – To quell the insurgent desire of the envious waters below, empyrean casts her brilliant starlight upon its black, mirrored surface;

Beast

This spiral staircase – his sensorium, ever silent and deep – whose steps fade and whose shadows wilt before the blossom of endogenous darkness, is devoured stair by stair as the beast pursues him downward with unalloyed rancor and tenacity There is no egress; the absence of memories marked by the stench of failure and

Rebellion

Obdurately rebelling against a predilection for recalcitrance and losing a winning battle

Indurate

The selfish and weak abandon, and with them take a piece of you each; you’re left minimal and indurate, a raw only strength endeavours to embrace

Home

See what stands atop the hill, home to me Within the towering oak’s embrace, home to me Slowly swaying in the shade, she’s home to me

Wandering

My mind wanders and my feet follow we always wind up where we start but not always together