Long black veil

A night so bleak
the rain falls black,
oblique lead-crystal
chains and blades,
icy slivers piercing
flimsy palisades
that shield pale graves.

She haunts the hillside,
long black veil
diaphanous
where stones recline;
a shiver runs
through dreaming spines,
nerves curdled
by the tocsin's whine.

In moonlight's silvery
refrain, she walks abroad,
a soul in pain, avenger
of a love betrayed,
hell's emissary,
the bride of shades;
a tremor stirs the cypress
colonnades, the sexton's
dull bell chimes...
 


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Inspired by Diamanda Galas,
performing the ballad
"Long Black Veil"...


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