The Dead

Taken by lines in 'The Diviners' by Libba Bray.

In the graveyards, the dead lay sleeping with eyes open.

He spoke to the crows, the rocks, the trees, the rivers, the hills. 

He spoke in many tongues and in a language beyond words.

In their graves, the dead listened.

The blood seeped into the fertile ground drop by drop.

The dead heard.

"The time is now."

Seen by no one but the wind.

Heard by no one but the walking dead.