AT REST

2015 Halloween

[PLOT

  on the green / Cemetery Row]

A stroll

through Carthage stones...

Gargoyles in grey gloamings

of Autumns

of Winters

of the remains of days 

the done-buried

keep secret in rigor mortis  

kiss

before the grave

pushing up daisies, the cherished

our cherubs below tombstones

there lays

green tarmac flights

crucifix runways

mausoleums with eyes

of pyramids and storms

house the ravens watching ghosts

from above just ants below

beneath undulating cotton lake

the soil and worms and

souls

mausoleums

as granite angels mime

upward in prayer

waiting in the weight of the lifeless

wake

    white marbled expressions

consternations

    of devil may care

for statues halos

captured in boxes /

coffins / inmates

Our American gothic (gallows)

Caustic the silences

once stories of beams of light

life afire

now mere half paragraphs

in respite /

unforgiven mires

on a plot of green

in cemetery row...

Gargoyles in the mist

these arrested flights

of wish dismissed

of effulgent life

through the spindle of an hourglass

spider-webs of fog

where I share my path

the haunted besides / roaming

a land of quietude

futures devoid yet still burning

cyclic times

unlearned

dreaded cold below

on a plot of green, Cemetery row...

Rest

happens

but my spirit is a phoenix

flocks of birds

asphodel

taking a stroll...

Carthage stones,

past plots 

of green, 

         cemetery row

how such silences scream : 

         the fallen :

  death's blanket of snow.

Carnage.

&

Stone.