The October Featured Poet is Alexis Child

Please feel free to email Alexis at: alexis.nocturna@rogers.com

THE AWAKENING

There is blood on the moon
Resurrect the new dreams
Bruise the serpent’s head
and leave eternity behind
This is the city of bones
without a child in the womb
I walk like the blind:
my tears poured out like dust

BROKEN CITY

I am disappearing inch by inch
into this house
My bedevilled mind isn't strong
enough to fight it
We roam alone
but for the face of a demon that
takes on a human aspect
When will the angels touch me?
Bring me a torch that's blessed
as I hide in the shadows
Death and life are in the power
of the tongue
as if I'd never been
like a dream forgotten
I leave the dead at my doorstep
and all their dry bones

THE GATHERING FLAME

The world spins from the same
forces that twist our hearts
The world is my mirror
I want to sleep in his eyes
where the world does not
crumble, nor the angels shed
their tears. Mars, moon, sun,
Jupiter, we spiral out of control
always looking backwards in
sorrow to be without you.
Letting go ends in shadows
and flames. Where we don’t
fight, we burn until at long last
the earth moves again under our
feet until we are finally free of you
in endless night. The fire offers a
cleansing light where there still
exist shadows with a thousand eyes
as I turn to stone.

THE FALL

I have entertained strangers
and angels like something
I once dreamed about
chained to the past:
The heaven and hell of
my own creation
I am barely human
My head a crippled tree
reaching for Elysium
anywhere but here
I am more than I ever knew
and only half of something else
as a witness in a dark world

Alexis Child hails from Toronto, Canada; horror in its purest form: a calculated crime both against the aspirations of the soul and affections of the heart. She worked at a Call Crisis Center befriending demons of the mind that roam freely amongst her writings. She lived with a Calico-cat child sleuthing all that went bump in the night and is haunted by the memory of her cat.

She is currently signed to Nostilevo Records. Her fiction has been featured in The House of Pain, Lost Souls, Screams of Terror, SpecFicWorld.com,The Official Nephilim Site, and U.K.’s Dark Of Night Magazine. Her poetry has been featured in numerous online and print publications, including Black Petals, Blood Moon Rising, Estronomicon eZine, Death Head Grin, Midnight Lullabies Anthology, Sein und Werden, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poetry, “Devil in the Clock,” will be released in print in the future by Witchfinder Press.

Visit her website:
http://www.angelfire.com/poetry/alexischild/