Yew shields
winter stalker
rains in cloud
cursed
break
slate grey moss roots
hills knot
painful whispering valley's
hiss hurled leaves
stained by wrinkled rot
drop grubby brown
blowing greed
dive stubble plain across cloud limb
root rage storms
clasps fury choking
winds veined bleeding form
blades flayed echoes
rain thrash its folliage clings
to sky felled where
day is feared the night cleaver
that glacial
gauging
that encrusted lever
where no gentle mercy
survives the fever of darkness blade.