Risen vampire-like from out the wormy mold,

Deep in the magic mirror of my heart

Behold their perished beauty, and depart.

And now, from black aphelions far and cold,

Swimming in deathly light on charnel skies,

The enormous ghosts of bygone worlds arise.


THE UNREMEMBERED REALM

by Robert Nelson

Nameless: that unremembered realm of the temporal universe