
For Clancy
Death didn’t look how I imagined he would.

Death didn’t look how I imagined he would.

Nine dragons perched on nine towers, chained.

A clockwork heart sat abandoned, missing its gears.

If every heartbeat is a kickdrum…

“It is time,” Sun says.
Again? I almost sigh; it’s pointless. I trudge towards the horizon, harpoon in hand.

The reflection shatters into a thousand shards, resplendent, subversive, cutting edges catching light.

As a child I was told belief is faith…

Weather’s five children sat at the top of a trench, hating the music of the village below.

A street exists with relentless rain where three streetlamps flicker and a fourth is black.

Her father sat her in front of a piano as a child, held her in his lap, brought music into her world.