~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: V~

By WordWulf, 25th Feb 2011 | Follow this author | RSS Feed | Short URL http://nut.bz/jmbg12ea/
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~birds at the sepulcher~black wings twisted waistcoats~looking through the window~her lover disturbed him~a dead one-eyed stair~climb me up quick~don’t wanna drown alone~the semen dream~bathtub coffin~

~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: V~

~Music/Winter Moon~

~Music the Winter Moon Invites~

My brother called me a liar. Some days he knows me better than I have strung words around my throat. One day I might just jump off this planet. I feel like the moon owns me. Fearful of water, I am drawn to tides. The drowning man contemplates suicide.

If hell existed, this would be it you know. I’m hiding in the body of my former self, telling it no, refusing it succor. The woman it loved is poised and ready to bury her fangs and rip off its head. Some folks are too ignorant to be afraid. They become the next brave victims.

We made noise like cannibals, aborigines in the desert pounding dry sticks against hollow stones. Drug lions pounced from under cars, stole away the children from our used to be. He has a live puppet for a wife and a corpse for a bed mate.

Wondering as I pull the winter moon down to my eyes that they may yet be drawn to it without her at my side, the sky reach of our seek. Will she share it with a new stranger while I fade from her heart, disappear from her dreams. I truly dread the end of winter. Summer lightning without her will rip through my heart.

Children with your sidewalk wagons come rolling down to meet me. There is nothing in the world like their laughing, its absolute synchronicity with my being. Bells, bells, do you hear them peeling, peeling.
Where the church spiders live, my eyes follow them alone and no one sees.

Tomorrow the ten penny city awaits. Counters mete out the coin of the realm. In the shadow of the woman stands a boy, his face a face I have come to love. His father devours and I must run away because and before he swallows them both. She will not have me; there is nowhere left to hide.

~Tom (WordWulf) Sterner~
~Letters from the Monastery of My Heart: IV~
~Farewell Captain Charlie~
~Christopher Early~

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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)