“Misgiven” is classified generally as Dark Gothic and Romance poetry, a mythic love curse and gothic duet. Two damned figures are locked in a sulfurous circle. The strength is the compression, how for example, “one misgiven kiss” dooms them both. The imagery is fierce, original, and unapologetically baroque. The poem suggests a mythic dimension to a particular woman’s relationships that transcends naturalism. As a newly written poem for the “A Shattered Cup of Doom” novella, it has not yet been assigned to a chapbook.
“MISGIVEN”
a warhorse storm
of hades, she,
and i, condemned
to her by fate
she drifted in
to shoot the moon
and feed on souls
of low estate
a nightmare on
her blinds, i was
and she, condemned
to me, the same
i, the rage of
brimstone blazing,
who grabbed the midnight
by the mane
a night mare gallop
reigns in hell
our sulfur circle
wishing well
the curse of
one misgiven kiss
and all roads lead
us both to this
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