Doctrines of the Covered Covenant of the Terror of the Lamb (excerpt)
The Covered believe every human embryo holds either the ghost of an ancestor escaping Heaven, or a demon being rewarded for some special atrocity with a lifespan among mortals.
Epistemological horror
It has no noun. / The words to describe it / do not describe it…
Ghosted
Whose house was this? / I ought to know…
Dead Blessings
Damp night. At the last house standing / in a decaying neighborhood…
moonday
full moon sets. / bristles sink…
A Legendary Haiku
They say if you look in the mirror by candlelight & call your own name 3 times your body will disappear…
When Her Late Husband Returned
His heart’s as empty as his head…
Your Mortality Is My Fault
One night of thunder / I dreamt a door…
the song of my people
my ancestors—/ celtic, anglo, scandinavi—/ i wrote / when green / invocations to..
Idiolect
Idiolect I am a world uninhabited except by me. Only I understand its language. In that world is a catalpa tree. It lived in the backyard of my childhood home on Thompson Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri. My oldest sister thinks that tree was at the Jackson Street house, but I never lived there. At…