Phillip A. Ellis
“Nothingness.
The name is enough to make me see… ” (31 May)
Phillip A. Ellis
“Where goes love when love has failed,
and where goes hope when fear becalms
and it charms,… ” (31 May)
Donald Sidney-Fryer
“(13 January 1893-14 August 1961)
One with the stars and singing splendour of the night,… ” (6 April)
Dennis L. Siluk
“He lives within the deep
Where others never sleep—
Monstrous fathoms below,… ” (6 April)
Blackblood: The Window [Sub-sonnet III]
Dennis L. Siluk
“Disdainful dust, comes within an hours rush
You will be weight and brought to bed with him.
When you are dead, no more storm-filled eyes:… ” (6 April)
Blackblood: Strange and Fatal [Sub-sonnet II]
Dennis L. Siluk
“Nay, wicked dictator, with fire worm flesh
"Sweet country, my loves have pity!" he cried.
Lo, the evil, the blackblood in his flesh… ” (6 April)
Blackblood: The Beast [Sub-sonnets I]
Dennis L. Siluk
“The beast that eats me in the eyes of all,
This hate, this craving, this insensible thing,
That has bled me dry as the snow flakes fall,… ” (6 April)
Dennis L. Siluk
“Tikal, I saw your serpent stones
Resting upon Mayan bones
Of warriors long ago—… ” (28 February)
Phillip A. Ellis
“Rain,
hanging heavily over farm and plain,
longs to down… ” (28 February)
Phillip A. Ellis
“The days are long, those days of sweat,
although I seek no sea to sway
the tides that tug at blood and breath… ” (28 February)
Phillip A. Ellis
“O sullen pard
padding inside me,
never releasing… ” (28 February)
Phillip A. Ellis
“Though dust we may ever be,
treading the stage for an act
lit by the gaslights cracked… ” (28 February)
Phillip A. Ellis
“Enchanted, I die
a minuscule death
and with nothing left… ” (28 February)
Chris Alderman
“Pity? Pity, stunted one,
The nauseous stars,
The eldritch vast… ” (31 January)
Dennis L. Siluk
“The devils watch and wait
in naked flesh; their minds
obsessing with imaginations,… ” (31 December)
Darkness On Fire - Lloigor Hymn #4
Frederick J. Mayer
“Umhampered by life's disguises
all fall to tainted ashes of rebirth.
Light-blinded longing… ” (30 November)
Phillip A. Ellis
“I thought to weave for you songs,
I thought I'd weave roundelays
and though the songs came out wrong,… ” (30 November)
Opus 1683: A Kyrielle for no Christian God
Phillip A. Ellis
“There is no hope for blood or wine
on altars grown cold, fallow, sere,
there is no hope for incense fine,… ” (30 November)
Dennis L. Siluk
“The Hooded-dead are buried here;
Before us, the real world lies.
The green angel-vampires flirt,… ” (30 November)
Dennis L. Siluk
“‘Thou will not return
The dead await ye!’
The earth replied,… ” (31 October)