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Seraph & Satyr
By John Storm The people are drowning in their own blood The final day comes like a snake Slithering to a helpless vole, ready to swallow it in chaos The oceans scab up and fear surges like a flood Dragging us under, a riptide of whispered promises And later, doomed regret I looked at you [...]
15Mar2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedThree Lilacs
By John Storm A man once asked what scarlet was and Lilac gazed to the face of the mountain Ancient sorceries, black granite cathedrals The shock burning the pine, the earth writhing red And the fields heaving with fertile glory Remember what she had told me: Through wisdom, the world will end As we must [...]
15Mar2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedLe Fou…
By John Storm Like a turquoise dove Lying sundered at the huntsman’s feet That the oceans ran amber With a pendulous weeping The vault of sky splinters With an archaic groan A fetid insurrection doth call Spiraling lucid and undying tremor That fiery heart explodes, raking the monstrosity Wearing glyphs to keep one trembling Until [...]
15Mar2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedGötterdämmerung
By John Storm We come into the night tearing through darkness and panic Endlessly fragile, wrought only of a dense stone, staring Precipitating chaos, bringing order, eliminating maladies Lost in the shuffle of the trees genuflecting before the wind For the wind will be our guide and master Nameless, senseless, sexless for faces bring unlit [...]
14Mar2010 | Editor | 0 comments | ContinuedLilian Twisting in the Starlit Empyrean
By John Storm Faceted angel Reflecting all spheres Azure and spinning Hidden in the body of a horse Exploding in vulvic bloom, the colour absorbing emotion Rent submission I tried every one Till at last I came to your stone steps May the liquid mule surround us To be washed out in dull sea The [...]
14Mar2010 | Editor | 0 comments | Continued