House in the Wood

By WordWulf, 15th Jan 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/1qhmztmw/
Posted in Wikinut>Writing>Poetry

The children at play in the yard
are attuned to a darker rainbow
They crawl its misty bands
their hands a silhouette ring around
spiders in the moonlit night

~House in the Wood~

House in the Wood

The children at play in the yard
are attuned to a darker rainbow
They crawl its misty bands
their hands a silhouette ring around
spiders in the moonlit night

Its dark eyes and mouth agape
the house watches them
whose bones beneath its boards
matter not to the tiny dancers
murdered past and through such as these

Tree fingers reach for them
They giggle and run to the porch
rise on a ladder mist stair
fall smooth into the gabled embrace
of the house who loves them still

A bell in the foreground speaks
and well of the lovers, their parents
ahaunt on a midnight run
while these cubs of ghouls gambol
all safe in the house in the wood

Meet the author

WordWulf
Tom Sterner lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado with wife Kathy. He has been published in numerous magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake. His interne...(more)