Fierce-proud crow-piper am I
On Prospero’s good-wind, miller days,
Born of winter raven-burn,
Murder’s elegant professor,
Confessor to fictions.
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The Passing Traffic
From the frozen-gutter pulpit
Outside the chase-road Church
Of the Old Blow-Down Birch
The animated, grizzled-curate crow
Rants and roars at all
The passing traffic,
The Two-Way Door
“Why must you always let the shiver-dark in?”
She asks, this breathless,
Green-eyed glimmer princess.
“You don’t have to open
The two way door every time the
Night-wolf within you stirs.
Look away from the sinister glass;
Close your ears to the
Blacksnake whispers,
Tarry no longer in the malicious
Shadows of Envy Forest.”
She’ s right, she’s right
I accept the fact, but
Raven-feather thunder is
Marching closer, testing my feeble resolve.
And, though my romance fairy is far away
I’m hoping she feels me resisting;
Will dance words with me again
When storm and doubt have passed.
23/7/2013
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One- Phrase Raven
When the name, emerging from
Gothic candle shadows,
Became familiar,
It all started to
Shuffle into place:
A time, a plot, a face.
The garrulous
Be afraid parrot
Becoming the One-phrase raven.
No surprises there.
So … why am I
Going back to that well?
20/6/2013
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