With apologies to R.L. Stevenson
My submission notes from this period drowned in a flooded basement apartment; I'm pretty sure it was published, no idea where
Everyone thinks that I have gone… They also keep their distance from… They say that love has paralyzed m… Nonsense. I knew he left to meet… I saw his death in battle in a dre…
Landlord, said I, there are bats… Landlord, said I, I confess that… You’re a good caretaker, neither s… I’d be much obliged for a fence to… An electrified fence would be nice…
With what wonder did I behold the… Alone outdoors and sleeping in a b… Far from the town. Deep in the fo… with other refuse in a nest of roc… and kept from crawling forth by se…
Leopard Leopard come for me You’re the brightest thing I see Nothing fazes me at all Though it reaches from the wall My eyes are closed, I’m waiting h…
Does your mom make you sit in a sw… She hurls it toward Timbuktu? Oh, I do think that’s the awfulle… Ever a mom can do! Splinters below and sunburn above,
lift the lid and the music plays a crinkling tinkling kind of a tun… and you hum along and it’s kind of… to picture Victorian brides and gr… drop the lid and it doesn’t close
They think I wrestle demons in th… They think I’m stirring frogs int… They’ve never seen us picnic in th… They’d never believe I made it fi… I brought the milk and cake, it di…
I asked my love to hold my hand. My love was not afraid. I heard the steady pattering sound His stoutly true heart made. I gave my love a gentle kiss.
No sooner has the sun gone down When I awake and go to town. Since vampires bit me where I lay I have to go to bed by day. I wander round while others sleep.
A bat with wingspread wide and bla… Hopped upon the sleeper’s back, Sucked the sleeper’s blood and sai… “You look quite pale. Best stay i…
I denied the clock stopped ticking… I denied the coldness grew. I denied the floorboards creaking. I denied the ghost of you. I placed no hope in spirit writing
Blood junkie come and check me out… Nice warm neck, soft fleshy should… Why don’t you be a little bolder? Fly right in for a little snack. I’ve got a crucifix, stay back!
My bed is like a little brig; Nurse locks me in at night; Wraps me around in itchy wool And takes away the light. The night’s an inky scary blot
Where the bat sucks, there suck I… In my native soil I lie; There I couch when morning’s nigh… In a wolf’s guise I do glide All the evening stealthily.
I chew wild ginger root when insec… When summer’s at its fiercest and… I feel the heat in every vein and… I feel the summer pounding at my b… I watch its glory setting in the w…