Melodious Misanthropy

Rabid ruby eyes
Drink the darkness
with a mouth full of
broken glass

Storm-blackened
windowpanes
screech their ivory
cries of death

Monsters hide
from themselves
in frothy
alcohol

A sip of Hemlock
drowned in
vivacious
fervor

Strike the mallet upon
the oak as this
judgment
has passed.

Adam Levon Brown is a published author, poet, and cat lover. He is editor of Madness Muse Magazine, and a book reviewer for Five 2 One Magazine. He has over 120 poems published in 11 countries. He has been published in venues such as Burningword Literary Journal. AdamLevonBrown.org