Holy Cow - I Wrote A Villanelle

Meadowsweet

Beware the Seely Court are out tonight,
With Fairy Glamour and with Meadowsweet,
In bloody restlessness of dull moonlight.

In dark they see by their own pretty light,
The villagers whose flesh makes fairy treat,
For all the Seely Court are out tonight.

So here they steal their human lovers’ sight,
And with them all-but-blind, lie down to eat,
In bloody restlessness of dull moonlight.

With heads thrown back in sated, cruel delight,
And black maws wide with raw and ragged meat,
All of the Seely court are out tonight.

Out for revolt in mornings seeming bright,
We find them dead and smiling to retreat,
From bloody restlessness of dull moonlight.

We bear them gleefully as is our rite,
To bury them with fresh-cut Meadowsweet,
And know the Seely Court are out tonight,
In bloody restlessness of dull moonlight.