teasing the clutches of the night

reeled in last night, my friend and I
from drivin' around
crossing traffic lights with our eyes
kaleidoscopes out of steely monsters

parked the car
staring out into the trees
where the branches slumped over into the road
pitch black ‘sept for a lighted globe in the distance
illuminating two carved out tunnels through the leaves
and the silhouettes stretching
ominous outlines against the clouded backdrop
like some leviathan searing out from those sub-conscious caverns
eyes of flames
‘till headlights pierced through the blazing sockets
and the creature recoiled to shrubbery

Slunk up the stairs
snarling at the dents in the walls
because they weren’t are own
some flat-footed bump delusional with leaving his mark
we’ll leave our own

door’s got a creak but we don’t mind
and go swinging from its hinges
tumbling into sanctuary
crashing it down with naked chaos
we don’t play by the belted laws of the ethereal cosmos
infinite time for castigation
death’s got himself a specialty degree in sucking you dry
let him catch us while we’re wet

There are pulses through the concrete slab
and incense smoke reverbs the thump
that has jumped into our rigid clothes
we claw at them, those synthetic fibers
to shoot up the beat in our skin
blood palpitates with jumping limbs
and curdles the breath in our lungs
so it must escape on waves of sound
and we howl into the fleshy night
spitting up the words
‘till our ectoplasm boils from the supersonic pounding
and explodes