Vampires

Vampires arrange moonlit picnics in the summer months, eating hearts on plates of silver

Those night-hunters, vampires,

unable to go out in the sun,

arrange moonlit picnics for

themselves on scenic hillsides

during the warmer months, on

the young and supple or ancient

craggy hills of their grandmother

Earth. They plant tall torches in

the dry dirt in perimeter around

antique Persian carpets, smaller

candelabra placed on the rugs'

centers, as stars burn overhead

and the harmless moon, milky,

obfuscating mirror of their

destroyer, hangs its wan smile.

They eat what small delicacies

as  they can stomach

off antique forks and plates

of burnished, scrollworked silver,

hearts and livers, severed fingers,

veins and arteries webs of lace,

and listen to the  crickets sing

their rustling canzonettas,

and feel the cool night breeze

lighten the heavy, singing air,

tickle at their hair and faces,

as pearls of dew form on their

time-worn, hand-loomed clothing

and the folds of their skin.

Their hands ruffling the wet grass.

Author's Note

Published by "Academy of the Heart and Mind", January 2024
https://academyoftheheartandmind.com/2024/01/24/vampires-and-other-poems/
Posted here November 9, 2024