Ruin - Atrox

Out chasing kites and dragonets, loosing the track, jerking out of scrubs.

Getting clasped by the creepers of a tumbledown stone wall

Shattered gargoyles on the ground.

Their eyes staring up on their

pebble-drooling congeners and on moss grown sculptures

Beheaded dismembered marble figures.

Corroded disembowelled marble humans

Marble limbs sprawling.

Marble heads nuzzling.

Marble genitals gaping and

heaving in the grass.

Marble fig leaves eroding on the compost heap

Friezes on the walls where grotesque granite creatures revel.

Stone reptiles

strangling stone gryphons.

Stone maggots consuming the struggling monsters

Stealing through, you’d expect to find the skeletons of the Sleeping Beauty’s

wooers in the hedges and perhaps her spindle and the witch inside

Inside Rooms without walls.

Columns without ceilings to support.

The capitals shedding dead Acanthus leaves which descend in slow

Motion to become parts of the rustling on the floor

Doors leading nowhere.

Stairs spiralling into open air.

Formerly secret

passages now exposed, leading deeper into the woods

In one of the rooms a pile of tiny bones and a pointed hat atop of a tiny skull

staring into the corner

Strange… it seems as this palace decayed so quickly as if someone wanted to

get rid of it

As if the entire host of Seraphim gathered in zenith and wept it away with

toxic tears