EXCERPT

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Dedication
Treat Me With Candied Kisses
No Escape
Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens
Daysleeper
The Goth Rosary
Silent Embrace
Unsane
Second Chance
Convergence
Two Red Wounds
Song of the Night
I am Legend
I Could
Assent
Damning Evidence
Reflections
Immortal Incarceration
My Nightly Fare
Let Me
Nosferatu Night
The Blood
Eternal Escapade
Lunacy
Blood Rose
Eternal Love
Acknowledgements
poem history
biography

Treat Me with Candied Kisses

Permit me to gaze at the moonlit
Masterpiece of thy mouth
And educate myself in its
Many moods and delightful contortions.

Allow me to marvel at thy perfect bow
From which Lord Eros sped his gilt
Wooden shafts of desire
Through my tumultuous unbeating heart.

Let me became gloriously enraptured
As thy lips dance my name
And exquisitely sing "I love you"
Into the labyrinthine contours of my impassioned ear.

Bestow unto me the honeyed taste of those
Two extensions of thy mouth's perfect beauty;
With delectable sweetness in a fleeting
Eternity which I wish would never end.

Bequeath to me your slender sighs
Filling the darkened night
Until the waking dawn
When I must e'er depart.

Treat me with candied kisses
From thy magnificent mortal mouth
And I promise I will never trick thee
With my canine razor tips.

No Escape

Playing upon your veins
like taut strings of an exquisite violin,

I caress you to me;
your beautifully ancient soul
in a young again body.

I kiss your blood,
feeling its jubilant return
on my parted lips.

It had been so long
since we once loved.

The stars wrote epics
of our forthcoming passion;
the Fates have braided us into
one compelling whole.

No mere chance lead
our prospective paths
to cross once more,
no lucky happenstance
tumbled you accidentally
into my waiting arms.

This inexorable union
was foreordained
by all the Gods of Love;
a predestined affair
riding on the soft winds
of night.