Re-sharing my speculative cinquain "Two-Dimensional Visitors", published Feb 2009 in the webzine APHELION, Feb 2010 in APHELION: THE BEST OF 2009, and Aug 2023 in COSMIC JOURNEYS AND GOTHIC VISIONS.
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Safe Room?

Wild horse
Stuck in stables
Enjoying sweet green grass
Noticed owner’s closing doors far
Too late

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As the
leaves fall I see
beyond the trees something
red. Can't make out what, but it's a
delight.
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Re-sharing my recently reworked dark cinquain "Bloody Redcap".
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ransom,
Resonulo,
out of all the unseen
Borgesian roses one that
bites back

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gibbous
our derangement
ask clanker clarify
what will become of these wights so
carbon

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moon split
in the black sky
like the sura foretold
a thing that never happened to
earthlings

Lady Shelley's Lover

Dry bones
A skeleton
Brain stormed Crafted your flesh
Maggots came Ate the rotting thing
I'd made

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#PoemsAbout #Rot

Tinsel Tagging

The Rot
Dives down so deep
Root it out Shake loose streets
Water will reclaim ceded land
Truth piques

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Rope

Face marred
Sorrow has scarred
Skin. Soul. Brow furrowed. Old
Strange fruit hangs rotting in the trees
Lifeless

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Top Rot

Worship
What you require
Fealty we bend the knee
Offerings unacceptable
Our lives

Our blood
A sacrifice
Extracted with delight
You enjoy the suffering you
Inflict

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Cinquain

Five lines you say!
And not a tanka but kinda
with no limit, no bloody limit
of line length, or tricksy syllable
counts! Well, fuck me!

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Re-sharing my dark speculative cinquain "Of What It Speaks, I Know Not".

This is an appropriately spooky piece for the spooky season.

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Re-sharing one of my personal favorites — my cinquain "Yellow Eyes", originally published June 26, 2009, in EVERY DAY POETS.

Background digital manipulation of image by Belinda Cave obtained from Pixabay. Free for use under the Pixabay Content License.

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