The Ragged Man

(tick)…sweet dark my thoughts ever consume (tock)…haunting dream dethrone (tick)…ocean pyre blackness sing (tock)…unfolding deep her wary wing …tick ……tock ………tick (tick)…gurgled hum from sickly bulb (tock)…hanging cord decay (tick)…sway above my spinning bed (tock)…waning wicked water thread …tick ……tock ………click (tick)…breath from rage caress my skin (tock)…alight my morbid muse (tick)…two beads of light through window pine (tock)…rise Orion eye align …click ……tock ………click (tick)…a scarecrow there in gnarled husk (tock)…ragged man askew (tick)…bent is he in kernel maze (tock)…two oil drops unholy gaze …tick ……tock ………tick (tick)…through dusky brine I drag my clock (tock)…’til shadows we did touch (tick)…a sickly click his jaw did snap (tock)…consuming me eternal trap …click ……click ………click Dark priest Buried moon Shivering Wipes mouth Before closing Book Sideways, glances at Me Man, askew on Dancing stick Slack-jaw Dumb ...click