DARk passages
When I walk through dark passages
with crumbling walls
under tall statues
glowing in dusky shadows
with cruel lips and expressionless faces,
their granite fists clenched-
a secret door gives way
into dark gardens
in muted blue light
where pale drooping flowers grow
and yellow fingernails on decaying hands reach out of the dirt
Here
two lovers lay
by cloudy bushes and dark trees,
masked by an unnatural stillness
Hands shuddering through electronic currents
hover over them like a medium's soft arms
wavering in pink gaseous stillness
--
He watches her from the shadows
through green tinted windows
his wet fingertips pressed against the glass
the outside, blue, like dead berries crushed into air
he walks through mauve curtains
the rough drapery slowly dragging against him
from everywhere the sudden appearance of disembodied smiles
shaking up and down in spasms
as he dizzyingly tries to keep track
they swirl through the shadows with gleaming bliss
When I walk through dark passages
with crumbling walls
under tall statues
glowing in dusky shadows
with cruel lips and expressionless faces,
their granite fists clenched-
a secret door gives way
into dark gardens
in muted blue light
where pale drooping flowers grow
and yellow fingernails on decaying hands reach out of the dirt
Here
two lovers lay
by cloudy bushes and dark trees,
masked by an unnatural stillness
Hands shuddering through electronic currents
hover over them like a medium's soft arms
wavering in pink gaseous stillness
--
He watches her from the shadows
through green tinted windows
his wet fingertips pressed against the glass
the outside, blue, like dead berries crushed into air
he walks through mauve curtains
the rough drapery slowly dragging against him
from everywhere the sudden appearance of disembodied smiles
shaking up and down in spasms
as he dizzyingly tries to keep track
they swirl through the shadows with gleaming bliss
