Led through torchlit silent lanes
Crimson portents rubricae
Past the doorway
Three sided formed
Tattooed priesthood
Faceless, cowled, branded
Enter chambers heathen warmed
Floors engraved with ritual scorn
Rows of zealots eightsided formed
Heathens
Tattooed priesthood
Faceless, Cowled, impure vermin
Blasphemy
Apostates gather. Communion
A foetid assembly, nauseous faith
Judged Guilty
Drawn and quartered, left to rot
Godkin descent
Bless these pale hands
Sweet penitent
Intone thine chants
Bless these pale hands
Grief-stricken heirs
Martyred lineage
Thirteen amphorae line the moor
Before me. Sublime, in clay and
Violet thread
Arranged in patterns of
Remembrance
Cracked open
Listen to these intertwined bones
Whisper a martyred lineage
Grief stricken heirs