“The beast of the gulch is on the move. It hunts without reason. It kills without eating. Its prey is the sound of a beating heart. Within the shallows of the gulch dwells death.”
Book 9 of The Kingdom’s Disdain is available now!
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Special Effects Chest pain Is a constant A wall between myself and the body There is a chronology that I am separated from as I hover Above the flesh, noncommittal Like a prince who can’t make up his mind You’re falling into the water You’re stumbling
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Dead Butterfly I am a larva But the sun cannot reach me In my cave. Do you hear the cries of my brothers and sisters as The rain water seeps into our underground caverns? They say it is a sin To be born small And fail
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Eve Lap through what remains of the moon-touched water Darling Atrophy came to the branches with the setting of the sun Maggots, kept in hunger and isolation for untold centuries But the fruit of knowledge persisted A forbidden gem, breaching the leafy canopy To starlight And
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Hades Invitation I’m estranged from the movement of the moon A waving mirage, white in the frost that shakes back and forth To attract prey Pomegranate soup A bridge too short, a soul on-guard, a keeper waiting in the snow The car is still thawing as
-
A musing inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth Where the Saints Dance Defiance can be found At the bottom of a glass Or, on concrete After you cut your teeth on the curb Grating the brain out of your skull like shredded cheese In the name of the saints Their eyes are closed but
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Wait for Me Consider my slow approach The pads in my paws keep me silent Even in the realm of thought, but you Considered me a noise, an abstract trial to be redeemed from Transcendental aftermath of a crazed god There was smoke, fire, then more
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Wake Betrayed in secrecy Sanctioned by secretions of sleeping poison in my morning coffee I log in to the regular reincarnation cycle Birth, labor, waiting, rest, and sleep But the sleep is only mental The automaton continues to strive Severed from consideration While God in his
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Cabal Swipe right to find out what’s coming in the wings Four wings double-bent, two covering the face Moses had a face that shined like the moon, so he had to hide it And I hide my psychic vibrations, solar waves So you can keep going
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. This Was Home The first syllable rises from my tongue As I twist it in a knot Evoke There are frogs singing in the darkness behind my house and Today of all days, the day of my unmaking You came in to my castle, broke the
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Runes Carved Into Ruins The zodiac craves attention A stumbling lion receives your prayers And I am humbled by the gravity that keeps spirits bound to earth We turned three corners to come up on A roundabout with no exit Lion, lamb, aries, aquarius, scorpio You
-
A poem inspired by The Muse of Cold Earth. Aspects of the Infinite Harmoniously, we fall into a craze Peacefully we slip into, a crack in the ice, where the coldness and lack of light slow Reptilian heart rates And I loved you, and I became one with you But the eyes always thirsted for
paullang.blog 