Beware dear mousey

cat D is stalking

primed to pounce

and visit devastation

upon your nest

of velvet down.

An angel passes

through mauve skies

to swathe

my harpooned heart

in light

and fragrant kisses

In the green wood

jackboots thunder

and cudgel

deviations of spirit.

At winter desiccation

early tears frost.

Weeping waterfalls

of fractured futures

eternally greyed shadows

drifting torpid and yoked

on a conveyor belt

that never sleeps.