Drakon Ultim Poem by Kathleen Grigsby

Looped
around the pillar, she
cries lonely to the darkening
void, until her long skull echoes with the
sound

Only
shattering and empty-eyed
palaces await her madness, stone and
shades caked with now-shuddering dust from time
immemorial

What
now is this forgotten
denizen waiting for, crying
crested in the graveyard of a civilization long
defunct

Sinuous
kindred swept away by time's
tides, since even before the death of this new
necropolis, now she longs for bright/racing/teeming
lights

Under
a sky held forever in
shadow, and when all mortal thought fades, the
broken shell of a city will hear the last legend of first nightmares
mourn