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The snow was deep and pace was slow, the frost was in his bones
He came upon the witch’s horse, as twilight took its own
A liquid shine came off its skin, its mouth was dripping foam
Below its feet a mass of twigs would mark the witch’s home
Gnarled and broken fingers pressed up through the twigs and roots
With flies emerged the forest queen, beside the preacher’s boots
She walked in circles very slow, around the shaking man
From her side she freed a bag, with nimble crippled hands
Out the drawstring hole there stuck, the beak with lizard tongue
The witch of queens then said “commence, the setting of the sun”
From high noon the yellow star, filled with clouds of black
The witch then pulled the prophet bird out from the leather sack
When she set it free to fly the lichen in the trees
Grew until it touched the ground, and sang cacophonies
Above his head within the dark, the fluttering of wings
Was much too loud for birds or bats, and was of larger things
The dwarven ember in the sky shone new upon the land
The forests veil was then revealed to be of the left hand
The preacher knew that he was trapped, amid the witch’s world
He would pay so dearly for what the albino told.
He traveled through the hair like drape, ahead the crow it flew
Deeper still and led the man remaining just in view
He lost his sight of what he sought, and fell into a rut
The only thing that he could feel was now his aching gut
His satchel bore no food instead, the leaf of horrors lore
Curled like the other two, were corners three and four
The man had seen and felt too much, throughout his deathly roam
He turned and tracked his prints in snow, and set his sights for home
His hopes had died when he looked down, and mournfully he saw
In every footprint he had left, was one of wolven paw
He lay onto his back and watched the fifth point twist and die
The sun still shone obsidian from midpoint in the sky

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from Born in the Mouth of a Beast, released August 1, 2009

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