Eve

her fingers crawl over the sky
a spider's scamper thither, there
zig zagging weave of purple
gloom in high drifting feathers


the gold is ravenously reaped
from azure fields, gobbled up
from fiends with coal dust wings
claws that tear the day apart


dimming hours tick away
into shadows dancing for
glory of moonlight splendor
dilated pupils shall be taught


from the earth pours out
the souls soured from ash
and worms and biting beasts
that carry prey into the tombs


bones collect as twigs and
branches from a heavy ice
and grinding teeth sings to
sleep the sweet lifeless lullaby


foul the air that drifts upon
a torrent breeze to chill the flesh
the scratching breath of night
to growl and howl then bite


from hollowed out logs
crawl the throngs of creeps
and swarms to overtake as one
with stinging thorns and venom


spurred on these offspring
of shadows within darkest black
cackles thunder through the air
from the night hag named Eve