“MOONLIGHT DROPS” is a brief gothic lyric that functions almost like an incantation, relying on concentrated imagery and sonic texture rather than narrative development. The tone is sensual, mysterious, and foreboding, while the voice feels ritualistic and dreamlike, as though reciting fragments of occult symbolism from memory or trance. The poem’s greatest strength lies in its compressed imagery, which creates a layered symbolic landscape where beauty, temptation, desire, and death coexist in uneasy harmony. The language is highly musical, with short phrases and internal echoes that give the poem the cadence of a chant or folk refrain. Written for the “A Shattered Cup of Doom” novella, this poem appears in the “Second Shards of Broken Glass” chapbook.
“MOONLIGHT DROPS”
dew of the orchid
a field of briar
moonlight drops
tongue of the fire
forbidden fruit
a pint of desire
buried like a bone
beneath a cemetery tree
buried like a bone
beneath a cemetery tree
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