Phlegethon
Black trees rose upward, en masse,
like burnt hands grasping as they passed
among orange Autumn leaves and black soil
in clumpy mounds, as if aboil—
a molten river, sluggish, while fog floated
thick as smoke above the dead and bloated.
The dead swayed, adrift and careless while
flowing along that rural backwoods mile;
and, imbibing the ambivalence of October
with a mind embittered, yet sober,
I wondered what a cynic, given to Devilry,
should feel during his timeless, riverside revelry.
Postpartum Eruption
The sun clutched its planets like a possessive parent,
raising them with her steady warmth and guiding light,
but like Medea, whose witchy temper was always inherent,
she will eventually supernova in jilted spite.
Stephen Marshall. Writer, illustrator, layabout. Find him on Amazon, maybe. He has paperback and kindle books listed there. He also writes Supernatural Romance under the name S.C. Foster (because his fiancee pushed him to do so). He seems to have a knack for the Romance genre, much to his chagrin. Having pursued Children's literature he is particularly proud of his Children's novel series "Lost And Found", which begins with "Chloe Among The Clover", continues recently with "Stormy Within The Strawberry Patch" and may, in some future potentiality, culminate with "Candice Through The Picket Fence". These are novels for children (including his insistent nephew), but they are also written for adults who are children at heart. His short story collection, "The Eldritch Diaries", centers primarily upon Cosmic Horror and Body Horror, combining Lovecraft's mythos with the motifs of Sigmund Freud. His largest poetry collection, "Broken Crown Kings", contains over two hundred poems and two short novellas concerning the fleeting nature of the world and Man's place within it. Recently he has published a smaller book of poetry concerning Kentucky, Moonshine, and Ghosts called "Moonshine And Spirit Chasers". A much larger collection, entitled '"Nevermore" 99 Rhymes For $0.99' is also available. For those seeking supernatural and folklore, his collection "Weeping Cherry" is available also.
https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Marshall/e/B07536QKD9?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_fkmrnull_1&qid=1554215427&sr=8-1-fkmrnull
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