Well of Souls

 

 

 

There are ghosts down there

a host of green angels

order us to slay our naked fish men

haul them up to be eaten

flesh borne to our table

and body complete

 

A crack appears in the withering wall

bear witness a frail danse of devils

We are thus found

seeking and wont to become

a panting penumbra

pale shadow green angel

mermaids naked fish men

a bubble of breath

at the bottom of the well

 

 

 

 

Tom {WordWulf} Sterner, lives in Redding, California and Arvada, Colorado.  He has been published in magazines and on the internet, including Howling Dog Press/Omega, Skyline Literary Review, The Storyteller, and Flashquake.  He is winner of the Marija Cerjak Award for Avant-Garde/Experimental Writing and was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2006 and 2008.  He edited the English translation of Hameed Al-Qaed’s ‘Noise of Whisper’,  edited and wrote the forward for the Arabic to English translation of the poets of Bahrain, ‘Pearl, Dreams of Shell’ published in 2007.  Published work includes two novels, Madman Chronicles: The Warrior and Momma’s Rain.  His website is HERE.