Skull & Red Apple Black Crow Retro Wall Art - Gothic Raven Wooden Oval Frame Halloween Wall Decor Moon Phases Wicca Altar Tablecloth The hour gets announced in

The hour gets announced in capitals

so it can stay up past Halloween

Feathers hang where they meet

Colour stays cold — navy

a kitchen doorway

Skull & Red Apple Black Crow Retro Wall Art - Gothic Raven Wooden Oval Frame Halloween Wall Decor Moon Phases Wicca Altar Tablecloth The hour gets announced inThe wax has been running a while. A raven grips a deep red apple, claws around the stem, head turned left and a red sheen showing through the black of its wing. Two thick ivory candles burn behind it, both with wax spilling well down their sides. At the bottom sit two cracked pale skulls with small embers glowing in the eye sockets, half buried in magenta peonies. Everything else falls away to near black. The richest and most theatrical of the group,