Faint Flashes
By
Morgan Chalfant
Faint flashes
Drowning in the midnight ink
Well-intentioned blinking
Behind flytrap lashes
And you’re Venus to me.
Faint flashes
Those beacons pulsing for prey
Sinking teeth while batting
Lonely hearts pitter patting
And your stare meant to pierce.
Faint flashes
Strobing to incite
Nocturnal gnashing
Bright pools of lunar light
You’re the beast that hunts at night.
Faint flashes
I’m hypnotized by the hue
A glare so magnanimous
Even gorgons envy you
And I’m struck stone still.
Faint flashes
Alizarin splashes
A dim glow beneath my skin
I’ll keep kicking, while you’re pin pricking
You’re the voodoo queen.
Final flashes
Thirst sated at long last
My life flutters away so fast
This blind man’s had enough
In your game of blind man’s bluff.
Hallowed Out
By
Morgan Chalfant
Flooded were the Fall streets,
gushing arteries in the moon’s blood groove.
Dangling by a life’s thread
A city rigor mortis, heaped with unbelievers too scared to move.
Slipping down the sidewalks
The devoted dance with their pumpkin heads
With butchered cross-cut smiles,
the hallowed dawn their sanguine autumn threads.
And in a blaze orange sunrise,
They burn the unbelievers with their jack-o-lantern eyes.
Morgan Chalfant is a novelist, poet, and an instructor of writing at Fort Hays State University. He is a native of Hill City, Kansas. He received his bachelor's degree in writing and his master's degree in literature from Fort Hays State University. He is the author of the horror/thriller novella, Focused Insanity, and the urban fantasy novels, Ghosts of Glory and Infernal Glory. In his free time, he likes delving into horror movies, collecting ancient weapons, practicing martial arts, and has a perpetual love for 1980s pop culture. You can find him online at Instagram: @eyesonly34 or at his Amazon Author page.
By
Morgan Chalfant
Faint flashes
Drowning in the midnight ink
Well-intentioned blinking
Behind flytrap lashes
And you’re Venus to me.
Faint flashes
Those beacons pulsing for prey
Sinking teeth while batting
Lonely hearts pitter patting
And your stare meant to pierce.
Faint flashes
Strobing to incite
Nocturnal gnashing
Bright pools of lunar light
You’re the beast that hunts at night.
Faint flashes
I’m hypnotized by the hue
A glare so magnanimous
Even gorgons envy you
And I’m struck stone still.
Faint flashes
Alizarin splashes
A dim glow beneath my skin
I’ll keep kicking, while you’re pin pricking
You’re the voodoo queen.
Final flashes
Thirst sated at long last
My life flutters away so fast
This blind man’s had enough
In your game of blind man’s bluff.
Hallowed Out
By
Morgan Chalfant
Flooded were the Fall streets,
gushing arteries in the moon’s blood groove.
Dangling by a life’s thread
A city rigor mortis, heaped with unbelievers too scared to move.
Slipping down the sidewalks
The devoted dance with their pumpkin heads
With butchered cross-cut smiles,
the hallowed dawn their sanguine autumn threads.
And in a blaze orange sunrise,
They burn the unbelievers with their jack-o-lantern eyes.
Morgan Chalfant is a novelist, poet, and an instructor of writing at Fort Hays State University. He is a native of Hill City, Kansas. He received his bachelor's degree in writing and his master's degree in literature from Fort Hays State University. He is the author of the horror/thriller novella, Focused Insanity, and the urban fantasy novels, Ghosts of Glory and Infernal Glory. In his free time, he likes delving into horror movies, collecting ancient weapons, practicing martial arts, and has a perpetual love for 1980s pop culture. You can find him online at Instagram: @eyesonly34 or at his Amazon Author page.
