New Blood

Reynard Fawkes 2001 (Perth)

May 23

Free verse

In this town, we don’t like strangers;
Odd fellows who stick their noses in places they shouldn’t.
Ain't nothing wrong with keeping secrets,
After all we all have closets for bodies;
Graves to hide our gold in.
No need to peek between our blinds
In the daytime,
Asking why our skin is so pale.
Don’t worry about our brimming nightlife;
Bars pouring red in our cups, the copper tang lingering on our tongues.
Too many questions attract the wrong crowd,
We can't have that.
Why don’t you come over, let us have a bite,
And you can become one of us.

About this poem

This is a small piece I composed with my interest in vampires, one of the greatest horrors, and I wanted to use the trope of a stranger coming to town, mixed with the un-living nightwalkers.

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Written on April 17, 2023

Submitted by reynard_f on May 23, 2023

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Scheme	ABCDEFGHIJBBBK
Closest metre	Iambic pentameter
Characters	554
Words	113
Stanzas	1
Stanza Lengths	14

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Reynard Fawkes

A hobbiest writer and poet wanting to expand his skills. I'm interested in gardening and cookery in my large town, but itching to get out. more…

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Although the poet’s use of the vampire persona is a bit heavy-handed, the correspondence between vampires as outsiders and the real-life small town mentality suspicious of any sort of difference, is well drawn. The controlling irony of giving oneself over to being ‘one of us’ as a way out of or of moving beyond that aura of suspicion, is transmitted very well as the voice moves from the general to the particular. Unlike the vast majority of the others, there is something artful going on and the poet has ventriloquized the spooky, engaging voice well. more »
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