The Dark Twins
Mystic Tape Deck · The Dark Twins On the darkest day, before the light was shone upon the world again A binodal entity emerges from the wilting lotus with a
The Professor
Mystic Tape Deck · The Professor A constructed visage, a fabricated guise, a finished frontispiece Worn to conceal, instead reveals, worn to reveal, in return conceals Reposed in authority, to
The Smith
Asleep for eons inside the murky midnight of cavernous maw, deep beneath the mountain, a faint mechanical whirring… … Continue readingThe Smith
The Grave Digger
Mystic Tape Deck · The Grave Digger Pulling on the mud caked creased and drawn leather boots Feet cold, atonic and rheumatic, bunions bulging, inflamed Shabby woolen blanket tossed aside
The Forest Witch
In a cloistered hermitage hidden from the eyes of the prying
Reached only through the careful divination of echoes … Continue readingThe Forest Witch
The Vintner
The universe distilled … Continue readingThe Vintner
The Cynic
The shepherd leads the sheep along the winding rutted path.
Their gentle bleating falls hollow amongst the cushions of corpses.
Nooses numbering eight tether them tightly ‘round their fattened necks. … Continue readingThe Cynic
The Story of the Forest Witch
Long ago, beyond the mists which lie just inside the forest’s edge, among the gnarled roots of the most ancient of yews, sat the forest witch upon her verdant mossy