Amidst the woody opalescence; clammy, creeping undergrowth, and stooping heavy boughs, they wait. A gradually growing blanket

Cloaked in cloud, milky fullness, gleams but is not seen. A silvery shepherd,

Day’s brightest star alights upon… breaking the horizon. He wakes; black mane, tainted auburn, sheening as he snuffles, shuffles,

Palpitation pressure flow. Insides flinch, break-beat, grow. Clotted frizzies,

Behind a blinking twinkle, difference disappears, swirling midst an onyx cave, masked, like moon from sun.

Synchronised elementally, attuned thoughts, raging solemnly. Ripping through trees, throwing leaves,

Poised to pounce, behind a filmy glaze, a blackness, filled with everything, and nothing.

Tempered breaths, lids sink, sealed, Solid spine, grounded deep. Hubbub hushed,

Day after the longest, lounging to sounds; traffic drone, plucks from strings swelling in the whispering

Mysterious, midnight messenger, bearing life’s flare, emerging, swooping,

Morning’s sun, subtly dulled. So perfect does enact such shattered souls. The mist - delicate,

As if a storm cloud burst. Leaves… Plumes of them across the sky. Bu… Hazy colours. Crimson, orange, go… past. Delicately brushing my face,… my senses. Such a beautiful scene,…

Dewy twilight fell outside, transparent breeze crept in, washing over all. Midnight hours swallowed; a shared,

Glazed veils, overflow; crack, with surging chills. Briny despair, on the verge of eruption,