Revenant Gloam
Revenant Gloam
Published in The Write Launch Literary Magazine
Published in Kalopsia Literary Magazine September 2020
poetry
She often attended
my manic
ruminations
“Invisible agent, unyielding meddler, the Past
howls its declarations
that it will expose me
obdurate specter
wretched wraith
manifesting hallways to pace
walls to scrape
air in which to shriek
precious objects to shatter
visions to pollute
with vague and false calls
palpable deception
stomping and rioting
lies in tongues
which terrorize this moment
in odious taunts
with incorporeal haunts
murking the reasons
for these visitations
these possessed spooks
these eidolons of pain
claiming me
during the
revenant gloam”
the silence sat
still and sullen and wrung out
“The ghosts don’t like you,” she mumbled finally
I reached for her
but
she had gone.
She’ll be back.
Published in The Write Launch Literary Magazine
Published in Kalopsia Literary Magazine September 2020
poetry
She often attended
my manic
ruminations
“Invisible agent, unyielding meddler, the Past
howls its declarations
that it will expose me
obdurate specter
wretched wraith
manifesting hallways to pace
walls to scrape
air in which to shriek
precious objects to shatter
visions to pollute
with vague and false calls
palpable deception
stomping and rioting
lies in tongues
which terrorize this moment
in odious taunts
with incorporeal haunts
murking the reasons
for these visitations
these possessed spooks
these eidolons of pain
claiming me
during the
revenant gloam”
the silence sat
still and sullen and wrung out
“The ghosts don’t like you,” she mumbled finally
I reached for her
but
she had gone.
She’ll be back.