Night Bird

The setting sun's last lonely unseen shard
Stirs liquid notes from boughed and feathered bard
The treetop silvered voice and night entwine
Black chanticleer's enraptured notes stop time

Spout

The gargoyle's sqall-fed slavers curdle lime with baleful glee
Malignant cataract falls dark to baptise you and me
Shadow'd holy ground eclipsed no revenant dare pass
Her eyrie's buttressed tide of human bones like molten glass

Keñti

Disgorged unseen malignant sanctimonium by night
Oblivion's maw cold comfort for the innocents' thin plight
Cursed phrygian priests lament destruction of the veil
Inexorably exhalted now is hell's unholy grail

Let Me Go

So when in time this summer ends
  I'll sit with you
    and hold your hand
      and catch your eye
Until earth's warm embrace so lovingly extends

Then wed me to my black-loamed bride
  I'll lie with her
    she'll comfort me
      in dreamless sleep
With autumn's golden harvest untouched at our side

When long the winter nights are past
  I'll search for you
    to hold your hand
      to catch your eye
We'll talk of all our glorious summers long ago at last

Lost in the East

Anarchistic ochre'd sun
Kiln-fired sloops their gauntlets run
Silken skeins en-mesh the few
Whom gold with cadenced breath imbue
Thrice-fired in scalloped chivalry
To navigate the last labyrinthine sea

Obsidianus

Inscrutable though fenestrated
Mullioned in stone castrated
Lead-encompassed skies confined
Occluded art pure light maligned
Refractive umbra consecrated

Snowflake

Translucent scaffold vaulted lights
Byzantine stars ionian heights
Glacial minarets of air
Fissured symmetry forswear
All first are last, lone maiden flights