Abra-Cadaver

Drip, drip
Drip, drip
Melts the soiled soul onto
A dusty field of abandon

Fenced in by human limbed pickets
Yanked from the graves
Of broken hearts

Skeletal branched silhouettes
Clatter above the bloodless
Hole in the ground

The Ravens hide in the shadows
The shadows hide behind stone crops
The crops provide bountiful skulls

What is the illusion without a live audience?
Who, or what heard the solemn incantation of
Abra-Cadaver?
Copyright © | Year Posted 2014

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February 26, 2015 at 1:57 AM
Great word play!....and dark, so dark... and thanks for the comment Dave...much appreciated.....Peter
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October 21, 2014 at 12:55 PM
Very nicely penned ....great metaphors
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