POETRY ON MEDIUM

Murder Creek

A Gehenna Halloween poem

Photo by Unseen Histories on Unsplash

Travel cautious

near Murder Creek

beneath blinking, stuttering

bike path lights

dimming starlight

polluted moonlight

Mind the stone shrines,

whispering lore,

marking crime scenes

where bodies remain lost,

etched by painted feline’s paws

ghosts in roller skates

spinning, spiraling

phantoms smiling

specters wailing, crying

beware the man rising from the bog

as tall as the treeline

creeping, sneaking

shadow monster merging

trapping, catching,

with spade claw embrace

sulfur breath

certain death

dragging, pulling,

howling, culling

back down muddy, foul banks

into the icy, murky

inky stench