Gilded Shadows

Insatiable voyeurs
Gathered around gallows
Gorging on carrion —
Dead spectacle

Mobs —
Of inquisitioners, coroners
Demanding flaying —
Dismemberment

Autopsying the soul
Gilding
Blood, tears — entrails and shadows —
As literature — justice

In libraries and servers
Spellbinding —

The next generation
Of cannibals