Gothic Sky and Greyscale Stone
slinking through a window on a jailbreak after dusk
fleeting moments ticking quick and beating deep & holler
banking fast and sledging hard through skin-thin razors' icy crust
chances disappearing clear as salted snow to muddy water
Zev, don your mantle at twilight
black sheep counts on magic thoughts, syncopationskips of beats, on lacklust’ring beads
frostbit fingers frenzy the midnight blue from the beads of the Star of the Sea
fingers on the hands of time slipping past and vanish fast as salt in boiling water
leather feet rounding the bend at the race of the River Saint Joe
Alpha, give us -- who hunger -- our fill
rouge and youth drained from sunken permafrosted leather face
Justice bates breath to wait for the dawn to melt the virgin snow
Gutterflower - once white as lily - choiceless driven
crimson tears wash the virgin fleece of a bleating sheep in browning snow
Zev, return to the manor by midnight
icy razors tearing crimson tears in once-grey pantaloons
razors slicing crimson fleec-ed legs once white as snow
the beating from the bully earth tears holes in woolen pantaloons
footsteps betting everything on fate and melting snow
Allah, give us -- who have our fill -- hunger for justice
ceaseless spring of absolution -- bitten hand of Abraham
spineless cradle-rock-a-bying -- slighted hand of trusting Son
sleight of hand of Holy Father -- down must go Isaac once and for all
Mea Culpa
rapid river lapping licks
anaesthetize tectonic bone
specious clouds hung low and churning
gothic sky and greyscale stone
Abba, we have provided that which you seek
totter teeter recklessness
tempt the yawning precipice
cross the blessed wet abyss
on the spine of a bridge much too small for this
Mea Culpa
fool her once upon lily heart
shame on you and you and you
once bitten, now charred
a burning heart of vengeful Ewe
Omega, had we any more to offer, we'd willingly sacrifice
cross Her twice and hope to die
smiting from a vengeful Ewe
twice you shy from eternal life
lonely brimstone bowels for you
Mea maxima culpa
fail you to fool the Old Father but once
he will doff his wool hat and bless your cheap dunce
failure to fool the young Son Spot but twain
his moonshadow curtsies start melting to rain
Hocus and Pocus the Spirit wrong thrice
said lunar raindrops will crystal to ice
stardust and whispers are skeleton keys
skeleton keys whose turns and twists
unlock thrice before half-past aeternum
skeleton keys whose twists of fate
cast double-down lots for twice the purse
skeleton keys whose ticks of time
land blunt between pips before the price falls
a price never too high for defiant in will
the price falleth but once and it falleth for all
Cross-stitch needle cannot sew
the tears in bleeding fleece
of Magdalene soul once lily white
to wipe weeping tears of a bleating sheep
Father Time exits
and tips his cap
lupine shadow
breaks back in
breaks back in
in black and white
in to a prison
in black and white
in to a prison
a prison that stole
stole from a prisoner
prisoner framed
returned now to claim his rightful coffers
a fortune has he marshaled out
from behind double doors
behind other double doors
behind padlocks & deadbolts & other double doors
he claims the Manor -- Manor once chained
renames the Manor -- Manor reclaimed
at a front gate -- gate made of brick
brick from the lake -- lake of same name as said river
trumpeter trumpeteering
water washing crunching bone
bloody swatching gothic sky
crimson staining greyscale stone