Tentacles
Enigmatic and piercing eyes peering under her weaved braids Like a mermaid emerging from the Sargasso Sea Casting the Great Cthulhu worshipper’s mesmerizing gaze She’ll catch the castaways in the web of her tentacl’d hair And draw them, hapless and breathless, to the brim of her lips Photo Hugh Ardoin The Notting Hill 2019 Carnival […]
Was H.P. Lovecraft the great craftsman of love The daughters of his dreams dance in the streets Exchanging treats before getting to the threats One wears an Indian chief’s headdress The other wears a black top hat Her hair rain down like Cthulhu’ tentacles We are now set for the final sacrifice… Photo Hugh Ardoin […]
The city spreads its railroads like tentacles deep into suburbia To catch fresh commuters in the morning and drag them to work To disgorge them exhausted and hollow on the platforms of evening From the Junction, London is like a T.S. Lowry painting, poetic but hopeless The blue collars have long been swallowed by the […]