Dear Reco,
What a beautiful piece to read! The imagery of smoke, “a shadowed sky”, with “haunted music” evokes a perfectly Gothic theme. I enjoy seeing how you blend beauty and darkness, saying the “river’s song turned heavy”, personifying the Earth to be grieving “a secret loss”. The personification of nature is often used in Romantic literature to express the author’s emotions. Finding “a strange beauty” in “that haunted music” is so very Gothic, leaning into finding beauty in things that are seen as morbid.