{"sf1_id":1491621,"sf2_id":"ynZvW3bn","title":"Searcher","author":"Fere_Ermelis","words":112,"posted_at":"2019-09-20T02:46:41.000Z","tags":["Anglia","Black","Canine","Demon","Dog","Fenland","Ghost","Legend","Poem","Shuck","england","myth"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/1491621-searcher","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/s/ynZvW3bn","image_url":"https://cdn.sofurryfiles.com/submissions/thumbnails/4c/39/4c39ab32-4297-4c62-be63-90064d026893","description":"A poem dedicated to Black Shuck, the Anglian demon dog.","content":"Carrion calm for I am asleep,\n\nAt the torn lychgate, on FenMere Hill.\n\nWatching out into fen-borne mists,\n\nCalling, howling frostbitten hearts.\n\nPlaying cards for souls,\n\nPlaying glass gods in the graves,\n\nCome those to the canid son.\n\nFollow him, meet him, gaze withdraw,\n\nFeel my asystole life beat love.\u0026nbsp;\n\nWalking roads, taking lives of wrong, meeting paths of the lost.\n\nTell them of Shuck's eyes and mind, Be it at your cost.\u0026nbsp;\n\nSo there I sit, still playing this game.\n\nIn lonely crypt and keep,\n\nFar from some, Close to most,\n\nThe pain still runs deep.\u0026nbsp;\n\n\u0026nbsp;  \n And through the North Door I drift,\n\nForever can Shuck see you,\n\nForgive me."}