Upriver
They say he still wears clothes, but he'll take to the water soon._________H.P. Lovecraft, "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" August - that time of the year when a stillness descends on the land, after the panicked fever-fires of July that ring...
Hecho En Florida
Hecho En Florida He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies._________ George Orwell, Animal Farm Anyone who has travelled that part of I-4 from Tampa to Orlando...
Rat Prince: Act III
Rat PrinceAct III Should you a Rat to madness tease Why ev'n a Rat may plague you..._________ Samuel Taylor Coleridge, "Recantation" "Hampton..." Cameron was sure it was him, the thick-rimmed glasses set in the owl-like face,...
An Inner Impulse Rent the Veil: Movement One
An Inner Impulse Rent the VeilMovement One We lead two lives, and the half of our soul is madness, and half heaven is lit by a black sun. I say I am a man, but who is the other that hides in me?"_________ Arthur Machen, Holy...
The Forest of the Noonday Sun
The Forest of the Noonday Sun Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungallèd play; For some must watch, while some must sleep: So runs the world away._________ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act III, Scene ii West of...
Naantam, Naantam
They have supposed that there is something in the soil, climate and other circumstances of America, which occasions animal nature to degenerate, not excepting the man, native or adoptive, physical or moral._________ Thomas Jefferson, Notes On the...
The Dogs: Litany - Episode VI
The Sun was glorious above them, Sol Invictus, the rays of the Solstice fresh and gorgeous down from the Virginia sky - the air was alive with the smells of the summer, the damp earth from a passing shower, and the effervescence of a...
The Dogs: Litany - The World Enslaved In An Unlimited Moment
Stephen's eyes fluttered open, he lurched forward - on the edge of a couch, cloth, against his skin, and the pinching of a bunched up shirt underneath him, where the fuck was he, how the fuck did he get here? His head seemed to...
The Skin Cycle VI: A Wild Field
In a wild field, where you've left me To contemplate, but not discover What it was like, when we were alive. If your heart remained A pulsing organ, from which The bulging veins and arteries Would crawl up and blossom From the ground, into a flower-- I...
The Skin Cycle V: Stray Stars
I was made to see the stars glow cold Last night, in sync, With a distant wolf's mourning howl-- Walking home With the nightwind at my back. I had to stop-- Stop, and look about In bewilderment, To wonder where This auditory hallucination Had taken my...
The Skin Cycle IV: Forest Dark
The boy knows how to use his hind legs-- Heart-racing scamper, That little scamp. Barely a creature, Hardly a human-- Liminal being, Just as I-- A phantom, A smile in the fog, Not seen-- A crying laugh, Unintelligible To the ears of the living. My...
The Skin Cycle III: Better Dog
Hey, hey Boy like the puppy-- Rare-sweet lips Strawberry-blossom honey, Made by hypnotic-buzzing bees. Hey, hey Boy like the otter-- Almond eyes, match Slim-sleek body. Twisted, Making a motion-- Casual flex, Sinew and pelt. Untamed smile-- Wild...