Steel engraving illustration by Gutave Doré for a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven , posthumously published in 1884.
pdimagearchive.orgSteel engraving illustration by Gutave Doré for a French edition of Edgar Allan Poe's The Raven , posthumously published in 1884.
The reaper’s luminescent scythe
hangs low in the evening sky
handle hidden by the horizon
cold sickle blade gleaming
a surreal fuchsia-rose seeming
to anticipate a harvest soon for man;
lethargic, bows down as it nears the land,
looming larger, blood red hues grow
from grazing the dark round field below.
Transfixed, I watch its sweep impossibly slow
plunge
