halloween the 10th

[magicwondershow]

For tonight, another wickedly visual poem, from Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. Transcribed in English, because really, I don't speak German, I came across it in college during a class paper on shared social constructs of death. Since then, it's just intrigued me with its images and cadence.

From 1813, the 'Dance of Death'

THE warder looks down at

Comments

[eldritchhobbit]

Great stuff!