Horrorscopes for January 2015
by Zack Kouns
Aries (March 21-April 19) -
A bridge. Two lovers kiss, the man standing over the woman. Her neck arched and bathed in sunlight. A garden. The animals are tame. No wolves laying in wait for sleeping prey.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) -
Light passing over the ground that is thick with darkness. Light trying to bloom. Run your hands over the frozen grass.Climb the stone steps under the archway.
Gemini (May 21-June 21) -
A child asks you why you're unhappy. Blood pouring from a bit lip. Crumpled red cotton dress on an unmade bed. Plane going somewhere else. Sun through the knot of a cedar fence. Overweight lady watering her lawn, her Spirit far away from her.
Cancer (June 22-July 22) -
A Ukranian woman bounces on the bed that you slept in as a child. Falls to her knees and pulls you close to her by yanking your hair.
Leo (July 23-August 22) -
You used to be able to build large fires, hand out ghostly white Phloxes and bees flying around wooden statues carved into Blessed wood.
Virgo (August 23-September 22) -
The princess is asleep and no one knows how to wake her. We've lost the effortless beauty of our species.
Libra (September 23-October 23) -
You are blind and older than you are now. Dying of leprosy and walking out of a Church while people sing. You've just married a heavy set Hawaiian lady and she leads you into the forest. Your feet are so numb that you stumble into everything that you pass.
Scorpio (October 24-November 21) -
You stand on a patch of dead grass during winter. A child in a billowing coat puts his arm around you and points off into the distance. You are the dead grass, the child pointing off into the distance and winter. You Are.
Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) -
All gulls that circle a sea where light rests for a moment and then returns to its homeland are the same gulls that cry out Joy (and sometimes screech in distinctness and unbelief.)
Capricorn (December 22-January 19) -
You watch waves. You feel hands in yours as they break on the shore. You know tiny precious stones between your teeth as you feel the rough scrape of Everything the sea spits out and calls back to it. Spitting hallucinations of foam in the bluish light of early morning.
Aquarius (January 20-February 18) -
Gnarled wood climbing out in all directions, running its lips along the ground to taste the Great living non being that enlivens All.
Pisces (February 19-March 20) -
Somewhere in the distance, decay hears a sound so lovely that it caused him to shudder with joy. You are that strain of distant music.
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