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
Vapor things crawl out of sight Shadowed shapes loose in the night When company comes I don’t see th… A crash and a laugh and I know wh… They don’t put on the lights or si…
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…
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…
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.
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
Knitting sitting where the necklaces fall gathering up the shiny things to g… who bite them hoping for sugar
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…
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.
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…
So you’re a witch, the lady said this was a lie my children told and I enjoyed I bobbed my head and in a teasing voice I said
Two roads diverged in a horrid woo… and sorry I was to be there at all… Two roads, night fallen, there I… (would it have been thus if I’d be… under a thunder clouded pall.
There will be a lad in Xereen who will posit the first time mach… I’ll never forget though he wasn’t born yet how he landed it in our latrine
A predator in tie and tails The sea of matrimony sails But sails Alone. When asked where is your better ha…
It’s a lovely gloomy day. Come, my dear, come out and play. The shadows gather on the lawn And whisper that the sun is gone And never will come back.