A Goddess
Ashen Dark
(Finite-forged
Of Death Entire)
Dances
Macabre
‘mid Ancient
Graves 
Grotesque
In Wretched
Sins Denied.
A Priestess
Profligate (Hewn of
entropy and doom)
Waltzes
Dolorous
To Music Ill
Of Deadland
Dream.
Dances
Frenetic
To Song Chaotic
In Hell’s Cotillion Black.
Twirls
Putrescent
With essences
Hadean
Billowing
From gaping maws
Of capacious Tombs--
Heaven shunned
Iniquitous
To Alchemic
Chambers
Celestial
In dust and bone
Of Necromancers
Libertine.
Wicked Scourge
Of Grace and Truth
In Dim Antiquities.
Warriors Etheric,
Wayward felled--
Debauched in Life.
Unrepentant in Death!
Soul-barter to Erebus!
Sinister Progeny
Of A Goddess
Dark
Enrapt 
In Waltz
Obscene…
As stars glare down
Narcotic
And spheres spin on
Inane.
As One Twilight World
Or another death rattles
Into Terminus…
Somewhere
Within the Myriads 
Of Multiplicities:
The Specimen
Queendoms
Of A Goddess
Negate.
Ruler Supreme
Of Dominions
Corpulent
In Manifest
Demise.
Fodder-Lands
Stretching
Sick and fallow
Under
A Manic Moon
Malign.
Wanton Estates
Of A Daemon
Magus
Adorned
Abhorrent
In Malignances
Apocalyptic with
Abandon and Decay.
A Deity Dread,
Fetid with Worms
Waltzes
The Cinders--
Bloated bleak,
Light and Wisdom blind
SHE Staggers
Staccato
‘mid
Miasmal Tombs
Of Mystic Knights
From Dims of Yore
(Keepers of The Light
Expelled from Eden).
Enchanted Shamans
Once Esteemed
And Rare
Seduced Demonic
To All Things
Vain and Vile.
To All Things
Bred in Animus
And Sin.
Brutal Zealots 
Of A Goddess
Occult.
A Black Hen
Of Horrors
August…
Prancing
Cock-Mock
Crazed and
Sardonic
Atop
The shattered
Stones of Olde.
Atop
The Eons-battered
Flesh and Blood
Abluted stones
Of Tombs Forgot--
Entangled viscous
In archaic moss
Glinted
Gangrenous
Under a
Manic Moon
Malign.
Under
A Death Phase
Moon…
Grinning
Full Beam
Primeval-White
Upon A Goddess
Pitch with Hate:
Royal Regaled
In funereal
Fineries of
Dread and Gloom.

A Goddess Dark
Finite-Forged
From Cumulus
Of Death Itself--
Waltzes the Cinders
To Ritual Song
Of Decompose
‘mid Ancient Graves
Interred Grotesque
In Wretched
Sins Denied.

Beckoning in Dance Macabre…

The Antediluvian and Wicked Dead--
The Unclean and Unrepentant:
High Shamans of the Blackest Arts,
Lured from the Light expelled from Eden.
Lost amid All Sacred Lies Platonian!
Condemned in perpetuity
To Waltz Demonic
In Hell’s Cotillion Black.
Cacophonous Black,
Chaotic and Dolorous
With the Music Ill
Of Deadland Dream.
De-Evolutional Dream
In the Nebulous-Night
Of Negate—Ad infinitum:
Chattel Grim To
A Goddess Dark,
     Under
     A Manic Moon,
     Hell-Conceived
     In Entropy and Doom.

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Dean Schreck is retired and relocated New Yorker.  He has been writing since the age of fourteen.  His work has appeared in Space and Time, Weirdbook,  Magical Blend, Literary Hatchet, Eldritch Tales, New Myths, Penumbric, Littoral, Altered Reality, Owlflight and Trembling with Fear, among others.  Dean’s work in Comic Books includes—Bloodscent 1988, Now Comics Twilight Zone #7, and Two Tales for Marvel/EPIC Hellraiser Series.

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