The Stygian Wild: 22 poems

By Child Robins

These poems are an assorted pack ranging from rural America to Latin America, from harsh to

dream-like; all the while catching the subtle oddities and the strange undertones of the moment.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Feb 9, 2015
• ISBN: 9781483550282

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ones.

ghoul

As a queer and misty form,

the softest of knitted souls

slips into the ethereal greyness.

An apparition floating

through the branches.

A ghoul in the maelstrom.

the nonce

And I was formed to eat life raw;

my eyeballs exposed to the wind

and my organs separated from the

gnashing teeth and claws by no more

flesh than a forlorn, fledgling lamb.

No tin, no steel to fortify and

not even a neutral length of atmosphere.

No, no. My water sits flush

with its viscera and viscera flush

with fibrous muscle;

as if held by a levy and

waiting for its moment.

The ventricles beat mere inches

from a blood-thirsty, barren earth and

its whizzing of assorted metals.

It beats its chest in the eye

of death. My heart is

exigent within the Stygian wild.

Arriving naked in the limelight

yet lonesome in the twilight.

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