GLASS SPIRIT
sunclad she roamed in dry woods, thickets, burnt ground
no mere shadow against blackening skies
mute air sees and knows a caress of its beloved
laid to rest for another day in silence has passed

golden age and the slight of cruel cold hands

once spring once bloom once sun once precious perished age
once life once my own once close and dear

and the hush of death sublime
they say you hear when you shiver in the sun
shiver in the sun

how little warmth
cruellest of stars
breed ruin and then
nothing else nothing else nothing else…
…but a void

spirits left
weakened hands

glad somehow
one breath taken
stolen from night’s grace

sunclad she roamed in dry woods, thickets, burnt ground
naked against a naked sun

TRAVELLER'S REST
"you and I - hear it bleed
in a desperate - broken song
empty hands - grander loss
the soulless banished – here it seems

then I heard you whispering
your shivering voice on the darkened wind
'sad grey oblivion'
escape this sane hell and logic grim

with bare feet misled
on bare rocks and iron sheds
long since falling down
down to see one’s foreign self
under torn cover shriek
wrathless sun naked and bright
bleed the scourge of sleep
carving pale scents of escape

actor of decay
godless seraphim hate
iron plan of death
hammers melting souls to dust
blackened paths to take
smelt the stale stench of grey
irredeemably lost
witness oblivion
you said"

eyes are shut, never touch the sun
traveller, has awakened and
his words sing, ruin and turmoil
and vast long bygone bliss

seems to bury the lie
still rest your shivering voice within
modern utopias through leather through skin
driven mad the ignorant blindfolded lamb

"restless scornful tongue
words pass silence and
stricken immobile
red my crushed lids made
bitter dissonance
taste anguish collapse
how far, still you run
' no escape - hush'
scattered, broken

onward to merciless stars and lights undarkened
onward now ‘til sunshine brings gravity’s failing
onward again climbing still among rotten trees and poisoned weeds
onward again on burnt ground to stumble blind through such ravished woods
arid a plain’s glow repulsive ahead
the sky’s lid gives way to her beckoning look
unravel the secrets of death decay
I stare with pale glance at her shimmering bloodshot eye

raging she stabs once more
my cyanide heroine
a sting it grew deep down
thrust into lungs open wide
sucking with anger
one second of rust
then pure nothing
stolen by night’s grace"

SUMMER BLED
"left eyeless moon
shadow stab emptiness
stumble fellow fugitives

lead lids lock away
fettered nemesis sterile

blood summer’s hands
captured again
grab sun from sky
warm one more hell
blood summer’s hands
captured again
grab sun from sky
warm one more hell

cigarette death consume sky
torment spring flames licking
die a ground electrified

modern futile death

blood summer’s hands
captured again
grab sun from sky
warm one more hell
blood summer’s hands
stake tied
rotten the air breathe
stolen by night’s grace"

CLOSE
there beneath the water and leaves
sleeping stones embraced her
sardonic shiver how cold
everything close somehow

shut the satanic and the obscene
shut the whole world away – bare iron lust

another day draws to a close
stolen from night’s grace

THE SUNCLAD
gently her feet kissed the ground
turned snow to water
one drop in a mirror of trees
there were no leaves to hide the sky

with the bells’ ringing from afar
one sunclad breath of a summerwind
icicles enchanted flew away
there were no leaves to hide the sky

her light a sun among nightshades
branches she dared not cross kept her in
ancient thorns and venom
there were no leaves to hide the sky

moon poured gold on her shoulders
silent lost light before a dead dawn
stolen by night’s grace

PEREGRINA SUBLIME
"see my queen of the stones and rocks and desert and its
blood dry in the sand sighing as immediate skies
loose their tongues and lick dust off hollow trees and her
carrying flowers to brooks with dreamstricken leaves

staring into thickets black smoke breathes through etched veins
flames chocking thick air without a life
man need no breath ruin decay
without life and no life at all

wasting my monument among
stars, drown in red sun
glow now for world demise and
find death, just death, naked death

desert echoes closer forest
ends earth asleep
stolen by night’s grace"

Nihil

(FS 2003-2005)