TheShadowHunt

Devil's Got a Brand New Dance Hiding from the sunshine tucked into the night candles on the corner bring your face in to the light smoothest of the talkers with the moves that you learned to survive in a groove with the lambs on your altar that would die just to watch you jive Devil's got a brand new dance The devil's got a brand new dance Devil's got a brand new dance and it looks like you You say we all took a dip in the ocean but lost control in the tide we all start with hearts that are open till the water sweeps them aside we all get a little pleasure laying in the bed of a lie we all get a little bit higher on the skeletons that w

Blood Red Rose I hold your heart in my hands, My rose-among-the-thorns; My blood red rose. Your thorns pierce my heart, Blood drips down my fingers, Onto your tongue. You lap it up; My iron-sweet blood. Taste the flesh, bathe in the pain; Agony immeasurable. And yet I hold on, ever tighter To your spiny stem, Slender and green, To your poisonous love.  

  Hallucinogenic fruit, from a deadly tree,  Vine-ripened opiates, the preferred toxin of the connoisseur  The lotus-eater with discerning tastes.  Shining skin,  Flesh like organs,  Pips as red as blood, and hard as bone.  Love-inducing, dream-bringing, soul-stealing,  Heartsick, the desire-bringing fruit  That creates dangerous, poisonous infatuation.                 By Vylot Hart 12/12/10

 Many years ago, before humans had overrun the Earth, and when the Fey and the Old Gods ruled, there lived a woman called Bryony. Dancers in their dozens, clad in velvet and lace stamped patterns across a marble floor. Four walls wrought from silver and finely carved ebony and spaced far apart surrounded them. Musicians, armed with fiddles, drums, harps and a litany of other instruments, enchanted their listeners, enticing them, forcing them to sway and glide. The musicians were led by a tall woman in a black silk gown, batwing sleeves on full display as she sang, arms raised but held close to her chest. Long dark hair draped over her sh