Night Falls on Big Easy

Night falls dark
moving quickly and quietly
over the mountain...
I see its blueblack denseness
pierced by no shards
of moon's light tonight...still...
all is tranquil...here.....
but in another darkness...another place...
a bloated evil is afoot...
gorging on the hungry...the desperate
and those driven to...play their preying
parts in the jarring nightmare..........
the sudden cataclysmic
breaching of their...realities...
having vortexed their...consciences
across the edge...of...sanity...........