Tag: death

Crushed

“Just beyond the bruised lips of consciousness.” from Birds Again ~ Jim Harrison The stars once bright in eyes now faded and gray   viewing the world through tangled trees   a purple haze of permanent contusions,   amid barren thoughts of rotting leaves… Continue Reading “Crushed”

Star Swept

A promise made lifetimes ago among the milk glass stars as music wept from clouds raining down their melody soaring among the galaxies, defying time and space

He Comes

She fears the dark for then he comes   from shadowed recesses   a hastening; ragged breaths,   fetid and vile, a flurry of wings   death, a handsome beast   her heart his nightly feast,   alive yet not

Faith in Dying

“It is the burden of life to be many ages without seeing the end of time.”- Jim Harrison   When hot young blood courses through our veins we never ponder there will be an end and then the fragility of life brings an epiphany

Illusion

The illusion of time when we are bound to the ticking hands or the ancient hourglass counting the weeping sands

In Vino Veritas

The sacred truth, now broken as lies spill from his lips his tongue blood-red and thick with the stain of wine

Feed

Golden caramel eyes stalking her across the sea of strangers a shiver runs up her spine as she senses impending danger.