BLACK BANNER II
unfurling black flags
Where moon's light fear falls
A whisper of graveyard dust
In breeze’s, thin cold as sin.
A pearl of frozen blight reflects
The still pond beyond the edge
Shadows bleed in night
As ravens pluck razor wire.
Quills scratch glass, cold
A story of moths, a tarnishing of gold
Silk shroud, waves in winds
Of lost souls, eyes of angels.
Phantom heartbeats, infinite
The willow's long branches
Stagnant mire, of sighs, & funeral pyre
The lilies drift, stains of midnight.
And teeth mark the flesh
Pale and blue, black flags fly
Hourglass, time itself
The echo of mortal dread.
The clockwork figures
Gears grind & weep
A secret slumber dark & deep
Of twisted trees, eyes of portraits.
Portals to the finite winds
In steeple's haunted
Unfurling black flags, in swallowing light.
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