The gang’s all here at Quill & Crow 🏴☠️
#booktok #mypirategang #atiny #tbrlist #bookshelf #booktokfyp #books #fypage #bookish #indiebooks #thehorrorspersist #bookrecs #indiepublisher #quillandcrow #indiebookstore #bookworm #bookstoread
in nomine patris, et filii, et #spiritus sancti,
cleanse every filthy piece of me,
meat and bone and dirty little cells.
mea culpa, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa.
why am i foul as flesh and caged in this prison? (1/2)
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
conjure the dead with
burnt sugar offerings
do not offend with
your annual #ofrenda
marigold footsteps
and a painted smile
you are watched
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
paint sucked into the grout
like blood in soil and dripping
like the walls themselves bleed
#muerte caminé aquí
the grit on the ground ain't sand
dirt of the dead in tread
upon our streets from boots
worn by a ragged rambling reaper
nadie está a salvo
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
#vitalidad
i ask for so little
from what stares from above
from what glares from below
memento mori
every heartbeat
all i ask is the indefinite
an infinite rhythm
powerful as the sun
i renounce
eternidad
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
#sagrado corazón
dead center bleeding
sanguinary transfusion
the blood of three
killing her sweetly
but blood of el maldito
brings vida eterna
la sangre es la vida
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
la verdad baja la luz negra
como tinta invisible
huesos en colores vibrantes
los misterios de mi caro
#calaveras y caléndulas
el futuro en el presente
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
(Forgive me for the effort at full Spanish.)
i haven't any real #intention
to keep you kids in cruel detention
but i'd be remiss if i failed to mention
that your trembling apprehension
does not merit my condescension
these wonders that capture your attention
are horrors beyond your comprehension
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
if you appear before us
we will sacrifice fonts of salt
for a glimpse like looking
into the sun through its reflection
we will bow at your #altars
grant you such worship
as you deserve for we are
small and insignificant worms
wriggling through your earth
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
wary #tendrils waving
from within warm host
do we emerge safe
do we breathe
and breed
parasitic
word and deed
beyond the shell
where we feed
and feel through
something else's flesh
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
strange habits
this single-night
brightly colored #plumage
some glow in the dark
some with masks to pretend
they have a different face
a evening of mimicry
for what purpose?
to placate some
grinning god
with costumes
and candy?
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
unfurling tendril
in the gourd patch
sneaking #insidious
upon the sleeping
waitful unwakeful
curling around wrist
to drag across the
fruitful fields
to the rotund king
and his hideous
glowing lantern grin
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
run home children run home soon
for the evening is dark cold and long
the monsters roam the dead head home
as long as the lantern is still #flickering
you'll remain safe all the night
watched over by a harvest moon
low and large on the horizon screaming
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
#multicolored solar anger
battering the atmosphere
like a familiar stranger
pounding on a splintering door
while we admire the rhythm
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
rustle up some sustenance
before we proceed with initiation
shed all your inhibitions
as we chant our incantation
we'll take a little blood from you
and i'll give you some of mine
your body belongs below the ground
your soul part of the divine (1/2)
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
leave chants unsung
silence your pleas
there is no #solace
lie with me among
the autumn leaves
there is only us
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
a sign is not enigmatic
when a sign is indecipherable
it does not perform its
one fundamental function of
simple interpretation of symbols
harbingers are not subtle
don't distract yourself searching
for scribbles in sand (1/2)
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
you think it's cynicism
with which I am #imbued
jaded by rose-colored glasses
gone brown with the shit
I don't want to see
but there are colors aplenty
and it is naive to believe
they should all be pleasant
so I sometimes switch
to several shades of blue
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
creak over the threat
of rotten floorboards
a distant high-strung
unstrung violin
#discordant piano strings
misbegotten ivory
stroked by unseen hands
a wet cough and low moan
in an otherwise
empty house
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
the centipede crawls
a #sinuous path
up your pant leg
under your shirt
to the hole
in your chest
rapid heartbeat sending
a hundred prickly legs
through your veins
at high speeds
red-headed stepchild
looking for a bite
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
skin #mottled red
flesh of an apple
bite into the meat
tenderest to eat
with a quiet moan
dripping sweet
where you suck
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
wear #incisors to the root
to the nerve shooting bullets
to your eye sockets
bite until muscles lock
and joints snap
swallow your own
tongue
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
celebration and joy in darkness
dancing and chanting and singing
ribbons #undulating over paper lanterns
like a sea serpent between the fire of
autumn trees and their falling leaves
crunching underfoot as though my child
has grown into a giant overnight
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
the reaper doesn't come home--not yet.
he is not the lover i seek--not yet.
instead, i have had a long-term affair
with #nothingness, a yawning oblivion
where i pretend i have no substance,
no limbs, no body, just cool sheets, (1/2)
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
#feathers rocking to the ground
like ash, soot-coated, singed,
from chorister wings, broken
in a scorching tumble from a loft,
no lord's praises on its
smoldering silver tongue
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
i see you selected
the purple #elixir
that offers you
a winning chance
no guarantees that
it'll fix her
nor that you'll
get into her pants
at best i promise
this elusive mixture
will make you the
prettiest at the dance
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
you won't hear it
until it is upon you
with smothering wings
#talon to pierce flesh
and wide lantern eye
an owl sure an owl
let's go with that
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
veins between you and me,
pumping heart of hemolytic poison
cold-blooded in your chest,
though you curl within the cavity
you carved with poached ivory.
steel clutched in skeletal hands
defies death, rendering our ineffable
connection dissolved, #severed.
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
as #initiation into our little band,
you must stand a courageous little stand.
enter Hellstone House up on the hill,
where Harry Hillstone was said to kill
all three of his children plus his young wife. (1/2)
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
this #smoldering pile of ash
is all that's left of
my patience for all you
wannabe vampire hunters
who think we burst into flames
under the sun just because
we sleep during the day.
typical morning people.
ever heard of night life?
#QuillandCrow #crowcalls
