Author’s Note

Sometimes a poem starts with an image that is just too good to leave alone.

A gathering of black feathers. A suspicious little chorus. A feeling that something is happening around you, even if nobody bothered to send you the invitation.

So, naturally, I had to turn it into a conspiracy.

Welcome to the middle of it.

— Rowan Evans

A Conspiracy to Rave in Treachery & Unkindness
Poetry by Rowan Evans

It’s just me, no party,
standing in the middle—
with a rave all around,
just feathers of darkness
covering the ground—

it’s no mystery
when you’re stuck in the middle
of a conspiracy,
listening to the treachery—
inspiring the unkindness.

They are poetic in their darkness—
unlike the violence
of the Mob & Murder—

those crows can’t be trusted.

Journey into the Hexverse

[Roses & Ruin]
Two minimalist poems exploring the opposing forces within creativity: the thoughts we cultivate into something beautiful and the darker thoughts we transform before they have a chance to decay.

[The Crypt]
A mysterious man watches from a crypt as a woman enters the graveyard and kneels before an unnamed grave. In this compact gothic poem, fascination, death, and possession blur together beneath the shadows of the cemetery.

[Homecoming]
Homecoming is a return to the Gothic aesthetic at the heart of Rowan Evans’s poetry, blending Poe, mythology, horror icons, moonlight, ravens, and darkness into a meditation on artistic identity and finding your way back to the voice that feels like home.

[Poet’s Curse]
Poet’s Curse explores the painful side of falling too deeply: giving pieces of yourself away freely, taking accountability for your own heartbreak, and realizing that learning to let go can be harder than learning to love.

[The Monster in the Margins II]
The Monster in the Margins II transforms Rowan Evans’s Seven Deadly Sins mythology into a horror story written between the lines, where Lust, Wrath, Sloth, Greed, Pride, Envy, and Gluttony become monsters growing from pain, grudges, and scars.

If you’re interested in more poetry, you can find it here → [The Library of Ashes]