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Stakes and mallet lay
in decades' dust. Noble in daylight,
your resolve failed at
twilight; graves opened, they took
you: that was lifetimes ago.

 

Kyakuchuu

Author's Notes/Comments: 

Inspired by one of the final chapters of Bram Stoker's novel, "Dracula"---in which Van Helsing is about to stake one of the castle girls. This poem is not about Van Helsing, only a lesser, and less resolved, character in passing.

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©5 August 2012 - 9:24pm — Seryddwr
18 September 2012 - 10:21pm — allets
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Decade's Dust

I have a copy (unread undead) but like the Laura K. Hamilton Anita Blake vampire novels too much...a lesser vamp, insert awe here...Lady A