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Six Demons and Nine Gods Approach a House Where a Man Sleeps

from Several Violences by Erich Zann / The Shrander

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You hate recounting your dreams,
so we'll do it for you.
You dreamt of ravages, and the screams
of the damned, and your indifference thereunto.
You dreamt of knuckles scattered like seeds,
broken down doors,
a swarm of starlings that hungered for the eyes
of your loved ones,
and told you so, and told you so, and told you so.
And nothing to do but wait.
Nothing to do but wait.

You can't sleep when it's quiet,
but it's so loud now.
The wrenching out, the caving in, the hoving to
of great dark shapes on a dark ground.
As a child, everybody in your life
told you constantly and with apparent glee how
at any moment the sky would open up
and something awful and implacable would scream down.
And nothing to do but wait.
Nothing to do but wait.

In the morning, a curve a curve a curve:
three great downed limbs in your front yard,
and the things that came through here long gone,
leaving you standing and blinking.
When you should have
locked your fingers
into their matter fur
and ridden like a burr
into whatever night remained.

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from Several Violences, released November 20, 2020

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"His blue eyes were bulging, glassy, and sightless, and the frantic playing had become a blind, mechanical, unrecognisable orgy that no pen could even suggest." — H.P. Lovecraft, The Music of Erich Zann

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