Empire of Shade: Narrative Verse

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

Electra Movie Camera image by Joe Haput CC BY-SA

Empire of Shade

Skeleton houses erupt on my block,
Up through the pavement they shimmy their locks
And scatter the trees with leather and bone,
And hair mummified—O buildings that grow
With stuff of the grave: what thresher, what hoe
Has turned up the sod where gorged buzzers drone,
And waxed fatly grass with man…