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Dusk marks stygian depths of this eldritch eve quay grim specter beneath the moon's silvery sheath surf cleaves with a hiss as the banshees keen weave lure to the thicket where shadows deceive yet beckoning thy breast beat.

Chains of ghostly twilight night's tapestry entwine if thou doth believe in such things so they say but leave unsaid many torrents pages gleam.

Cries rend the still air as the murder takes flight knot a feast for the lone but a bouquet for the blight groan from the depths where the dead invite soil splits yielding to the revenant's might.

Eyes petrified on the unhinged portal align not with the stars but plucks them to place upon the earth their nova as railroad spikes.

The cadaverous stir with a clockwork's mock life stalking then seizing in the frenzy of strife macabre feast laid bare by the scythe flesh stripped to bone swifter times the end of the knife.

A ghastly veil descends on our fate malign but the white rabbit hops by forgot the time.

More hands breach the earth as we share a glance darkling tide engulfs the crypts in its dance bare beak boned and maliciously advance craving the sweet succor of mortal for the footfall gets a chance.

Sinew snaps beneath the crows feigned design as the clocktower booms now its our moment to shine.

We thought it all the same indeed all the same virtue the sustenance we seek to claim desiccating avenues in our ravenous game plucking orbs and muffled cries our fame.

Muffled by the water's choke the seams come undone banquet of minds as we delve within eyesight burst forth trailing viscous kin guts unfurl our spiraling sin as a whole we dig in so that their demise begins corpulent scribe pens as we extinguish his line pier to peer the husks a feast so refined flavor so pure it ensnares the mind in time he chronicled a myth intertwined a servant's hand if memory serves me kind.

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Date: 6/13/2024 2:37:00 PM
Congratulations on your winning work in the contest. Way to go. Sara K
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Beatrix Macabre
Date: 6/18/2024 8:35:00 AM
Thank you
Date: 6/13/2024 1:59:00 PM
This work feels like Kerouac and Joyce had a baby, and that baby grew up and wrote a poem on some potent drugs. Not to diminish from the artistry with the reference to drugs, the piece stands alone as a mesmerizing work of art. My favorite part was the white rabbit running out of time (Alive in Wonderland perhaps?) Nevertheless, excellent work placing so high in the contest!
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Date: 6/18/2024 8:35:00 AM
I appreciate it thank you
Date: 6/12/2024 10:02:00 AM
Woe... this is so way beyond me, the murder simply flies over my head! Ok so I got that part. Even so, The feelings this work envoked were real and velvety. Congratulations on your placement and I'll be visiting your page to see what other goodies you have! Xo
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Date: 6/18/2024 8:35:00 AM
Thank you and I just posted a bunch more
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