Category: narrative

∴ windows roll’d down
evening’s mist billow’d in—
took pathos out for chimaek feast
(치맥 – Korean fried chicken and beer) |
meal was grand
reminiscing grander

Time! TIME! to go
tab paid
pathos left at the train
hugs exchanged
final waves
on into the brilliant unknown
life braves ∴

∴ at midnight’s edge
tender yipping longing
softens to silence
the fox, eyes of ember-gold
questing for who
his heart hastens for
as she moves painted
with hues of symphonic sky
logo of his desire
burns
with each gaze ∴

∴ tracing her path
along the falling effulgent light
unto the lady of the alderwood
where her fondness
and secrets dwell
infused my heart with spirits
ancient and bright
cast upon me
archeomancy’s mystic spell ∴

∴ i flirt with luck and the strange
perambulating past petroglyphs etched
upon my mind’s mountainous
and abyssal archipelago

alongside their fleshy silent stone veins
my pace quickens, bounding atop
yestermorrow’s heavily forested trails
where opposites unite, tooth-to-flesh-to-claw |

ever the iconoclast and aristocrat renouncer |
i machete through overgrown foliaged falsehood |
reading each thorn’s transcribed scratch
and slice ideograph—indelible marks across me |

in a moment of portent pause
the kestrel’s call shatters the sky
i am transfixed
she’s now arcing towards me
guiding me deeper into the aer of peace
of this collocate aeonian nexus
cocooning my acanth-scarred
and shadowed pelt ∴

∴ life ignited
by pyre’s fury
you, the firehawk
Chrono’s sentinel
branded the night
with soaring blaze

those who dared
keep time
with your bonfire
seared our worlds
with warmth’s hues
enchanting flames ∴

∴
rise
to heart’s call
footfalls asters filled
pulse blossoms
freedom mellifluous
∴

∴ upon dragons’ backs
through nimbus nebulae
no blade clasped
but heart knotted in labyrinthine vines

once stood stalwart
now a fledgling bard
wayward in hazed
and unsung ballads

no clear beacons’ shine
pierce the night abyss
or if they do
deem me a fool

venturing further
into the mists uncertainty

amongst dragons and clouds
and on into the night ∴