whispers doubt &
memory these
pushnail hands to
rust on through &
twistgrind bone to
raindrop splash
my naked face
who cares for
tonight tonight
when something
rests between
fold & trench
forgotten in
butterfly dream?
there is no love
betangled of song
only—
Stolen away
There are days that I feel like everything was stolen away. Like today. A flash of stagelighting splashed on chrome, showering us in cobalt bright and cherry gone to burgundy under the finger tap tap tap. There was sweat, laughter and I fell in love that night, but there was not enough summer to keep.
Those moments were before the things broke and I fell to the stolen, poisoned under a trail of stars.
We danced. How we danced. Different voice, a skew of face. Keeping the faith and spinning, yearning there on the eve of May. Michael, you said, a vampire drawing, drinking me away from the night. Be one of us of us of us…
And I turned before the fading, blinded again with white. I should have not gone into the light because that it where it started to break. The theft in your obsidian eyes, a box containing all the light and the smell of the waterfront. Distracted by the glitter, I forgot to forget and give over.
Maybe, I should have let the dead die.
Tired of the absence, I slender eyes to shadow. I ache for the heart in your voice. But now only echoes sing in the empty place where everything was stolen away.
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VMH Ep 6.1: Stilmere is live
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A Stranger in a strange landing.
Dovetailing memory and reality.
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aether wish
aether i wish of breath
to slip and slip and to
butterfly to lethe away
drink to drift to float away
her mouth to mouth
of mine and sway
with hip to lip and
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casting runes — 07may25
mannaz between blood & wine
i wish i could believe
but all i see are folks
drunk on power or drink
on hate or deceit &
it gets hard to see how
to crawl out from this holeA poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is mannaz, a rune that translates to “man” in the sense of “humankind”. The rune is associated with family and the social order, and in trusting the intuitive process or seeing clearly — both from within and from without. Mannaz influences relationships of all kinds, including those of a romantic nature, and encourages compassion, for oneself as well as for others.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
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casting runes — 07may25
wait here
& all our engines have gone to rust
or torn pages to scatter to wind
forgotten, what your good book said
& i wait here & i long here
& i wait here & i long here
& of ghost that the wrath it were
her voice has gone to calling, now
come o'er the rowan hills, fallen
& i wait here
& i fall here
& i wait here
& i fall—
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Ep 5.4 of VMH has gone live
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crossbones and bloodcheek
we sit
crossbones and
bloodcheek
flintfaced and
sharpbeaked
our heart of hearts
breathesync
i know these
twine times
only slipstream
of otherhymes
careful so careful
we seek at
crossbones and
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Something I learned today. The old (ancient) method of letting people subscribe to your blog on WordPress Reader has been killed entirely by the Jetpack team. It was unsupported, but still worked as recently as a year ago. I tried to make it a simple process of subscribing to my RSS feed at ravensweald.art (which is attempting to remove the social elements from that blog), but that workaround no longer works around.
So, I modified the site to include instructions on how you can add the story feeds to Reader manually. I wish they would not make it a multistep process, but alas, I’m not sure they really want you to follow a site operating outside of the WordPress.com/Jetpack ecosystem — which is a little silly when you think about it, if my suspicions are true.
If you have been enjoying Vengeance, My Heart, please consider following the steps outlined on this page to add it to your feed.
Failing that, consider bookmarking the site in your browser and swinging by a couple times a week: currently M/W/F — I may take a break this Friday to polish Episode 6.1 over the weekend. The episode is mostly ready, but I think I want to make another pass at edits before publishing.
Hope y’all are doing swell. Let me know if you encounter any issues with my instructions.
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casting runes — 04may26
eihwaz head to mud
feet to sky
hanging for hanging
save for the pierce
and an eyeA rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is eihwaz, it’s name meaning “yew”, is a rune of change and transformation. It represents the cycle of life/death/rebirth and is symbolic of the axis mundi (the world tree). The yew is envisioned as a path towards both the underworld and the heavenly realms. Eihwaz is frequently associated both with poison and protection as part of its perceived dual nature.
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