I Walk Alone

I Walk Alone

A Poem by Ron Sanders
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I Walk Alone



When streets are dead, and liquid lies have dried,

sifting shadows stitch a billion puppets’ eyes.

Mucus, in threads, is sewn into hide

skin marries skin till the fresh puppets rise.

Out of my bedman, out of my mind!

I slide into midnight--from sleep’s tether torn--

the world to disdain, the hillsides to roam.

Sidewalks are idle, the storefronts all blind.

But thereand thereare life’s bleak remindersthere!

Fleeing from footfalls, the whoring lowborn

scatter like rats under neon and chrome.


Then hereandhere: where lamps are no longer,

the black bushes rear. Creepers emerge, in moonlight surreal.

Shrubs break from soil. The foliage draws near,

longing to lean on my lean denim foil. Sampling, saving,

the branches converge: leaf learning flesh,

thorn tracing wheal. Tendrils, recoiling, in one motion merge.

So real they feelin ghastly waves they ache my way,

reeking sweet patchouli, seaming scrub and sky.

Merely dreamsclearly dreams are they!

Rounding my limbs, reaching my heart,

they tremble, start, surrender and die.


High overhead, a lone rider wheels;

her mask, like mine, the pallor of bone.


No path, no paleno surface have I--

none beyond the fog that chides

the chatter of my heels. The canopy reels

where I walk alone.


Slay me where the sunlight bleeds, burn me where she dies. Turn my bones in hallowed hearths, where horror’s hand recedes.


Day is remade:

No one sees her flames run like beetles,

dashing rock to rock, crafting soot of hemoglobin.


Day is unmade:

No one hears her screams

take the elders in their dreams,

and none can know her timeworn scheme

of roaches, flies, and lullabies,

of pointless babies primed and plumped

on useless prayers and curdled cream.


Written as fools were we, from the moment our coding

was spat from the sea. Targets and tools, contused and confused--

bungling, begging, bumbling bastards all;

ridden like mules, abused till we fall.


Off in the dimness, the dark curtains part.

A rider appears, his steed mailed in stone.


No cross, no creedno ballast have I--

none beyond the emptiness

that weighs upon my heart. The deep shadows start

where I walk alone.



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Out Of The Whirl

available on Amazon at:


Out Of The Whirl: Sanders, Ron: 9798671245547: Amazon.com: Books



My stories collection Wild Stuff is also available on Amazon, at:

Wild Stuff: The Collected Tales Of Ron Sanders - Kindle edition by Sanders, Ron. Literature & Fiction Kindle eBooks @ Amazon.com.


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© 2021 Ron Sanders


Author's Note

Ron Sanders
Be sure to check out Faces and The Fartian Chronicles.
Thanks.
Ron.

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Ron Sanders
Ron Sanders

San Pedro, CA



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