Ghoulish

Zombies are us

Afflicted with somnambulism

We blurred the lines in pixels, likewise

Vampires infect

Simultaneously leech

Our blood.

Thirsting, vengeance

Immortality

Ravenous black birds

Eat lizards tails,

Caw and peck

And never become full-

Since some spiders

Escaped, hatching plans,

Lit motives and wrapped them in silk fibers,

Offers of choice, delicacies,

As if free

As with blindness

And nocturnal natures,

When one sense is absent,

The others fill in the blanks

With color.

Outside,

I found a world waiting for someone

Real

To notice

Nothing is virtually

Immune to nightmares, or others

Fantasies

Just beauty. 

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Aeration

The spiders all scatter when the rock is pulled up,

worms wiggle 
desperate foreigners in terrestrial elms.

Well, it made me think of what they had been doing

before being caught off guard.

It hails this summer,

so they scream and say-All Parades Postponed-

& then the others look at their calendars and cross out

& cry looking up to the sky pointing green stems in vein.

Kites and clouds occupy the canopies,

caught in the whisk of wayward cycles
and lofty expectations, 

it is only pressure applied in decibels of thunder.

White petals all tremble, rose and lilly blush

at the smoky voice chanting in Gregorian tones,

a language lost to Time and wilt,

where these new colors cannot comprehend

so much red earth and black sand-

& then whispers round
like spider legs,

Trailing off, 
earthworms evacuate

I, Aye, eye

mist the warning

but held my breath. 


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