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eBook Category: Dark Fantasy/Horror
eBook Description: Denizens of the Cityscape is a collection containing sixteen "poetic tales," as they are called. Included in the collection are the complete text of "Five Spots on the Newt & Other Poems of a Curious Nature". Among the ten other works, three will appear for the first time, including a great new multipart piece titled, "The Jigsaw Puzzle".

eBook Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing, Published: DDP, 2003
Fictionwise Release Date: August 2003

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Words: 36890
Reading time: 105-147 min.
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THE VILLAGE POND

The villagers gathered
on Winter's eve
at the village pond
axes hefted in their hands
they formed a circle
they sang their hymns
they called forth initiates
to be the first
to penetrate
the virgin crystal mantle
beneath their feet.
A winter stillness
stung the air
some hung their heads
and mumbled prayers
between chapped lips
then three times fell
the axes down
in a joyous burst
that spread the warmth
upon the ice
down between
each fissured crack
down to feed
the silent frozen one
beneath.
Winter came
the following day
but as the havoc spread
across the land
the villagers
slept in peace
they'll have all winter
to decide
who will be
the chosen ones
to initiate
the pond with life
come the eve of Spring.

First appeared in Cenotaph, 1999.