“Pan Whistling at a Blackbird” by Arnold Böcklin (1863)

Across the Sky

Blackbirds vanish into the ocherous mist

Exactly as they had done for thousands of years

They turn back to remember the past as it was

Before a limitless infinity appears

Stray shadows flee across roofs in ghostly rhythm

Wakening trapped gods, their breath hushed in compromise

Broke out of bounds, unloosening the hold of time

And as the sun set they snatched the shrouds from their eyes

All tomorrows bleed into the edge of perception

Under an ineffable light that bore an ancient heat

Reborn beneath a hurtling flame across the sky

Where their immortal bones are no longer obsolete

Teresa Frazee is a published poet, including Skyline Magazine, Literary House Review, Poetry Shelter, The Horror Zine and Twice The Terror: The Horror Zine Anthology, Death Head Grin and E Book Anthology, Aphelion, What Fears Become: The Horror Zine Anthology, My Word Wizard, 100 Thousand Poets for Change at World & Eye, The Horror Zine Magazine, short story published in Storymania,  Founder & Host Poetry Reading series “Art & Literature”, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Artists’ Guild and Author of “New City” Souls, A Poetry Cabaret.