On the crossroads winter swans
Her shade beguiles the coming dawn
With sovereign whispers
That silence rivers
Frozen like her icy crown
Enthroned in clouds
White trancing gown
A blankets lure of warm deception
The sickle moon
Marooned
Glares from the stygian night’s
Accumulating blight
So volatile I scarce remember
Like spilt ink on burning paper
A great flood of ocean sky embers
Spun on itself and within me
Cradled in this unthinking deep
Where fish have eyes but do not see
Swimming through the ages
In the black seas of the sages
The centuries vanish as the pages turn
The world moves on seasons return
A crucifixion
Cast its broken memories
Angrily upon me
With effigies of wicker flames
And ragged wood in splinter-red pores
A body lay before its bloodthirsty soul
Crystallized symmetry of her eyes
That shatters
The white falling sky
Against a canvas erased
Away
credits
from The Dark Roads,
released March 14, 2014
Jeremiah Savage
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