Category: writing

  • tangled

    tangled christine &
    soldiers marching tin
    on shadows & smoke
    with eyes casting stars
    --how bright they are
    a shower glittershines down

  • cairn & cattails

    Photo by Nicole Elliott on Unsplash
    crow calling at trees
    a name of her buried
    of cairn and cattails
    rushes in the breeze

    windswept waters
    wrinkle at their song
    so, too, the waving of 
    hellebore between
    shadow and sun

  • tossing a rune — 22apr25

    cut & cautery
    carve away those
    parts we do not like
    & give to smoke that
    not given to root
    not given to bone

    sun gazing &
    dizzy of dance—
    reborn

    Today rune is kenaz. The word has been associated with “ulcer” and “torch”, depending on which rune poem is used or name derivation you embrace. By extension, it implies flame and illumination as secondary meanings. Tertiary meanings come from ideas associated with those themes (e.g., burning, knowledge, light in darkness).

  • stone rains

    Photo by Kevin Hessey on Unsplash
    beyond pale bone pointing
    carved within the fells
    this cracked heart flinted
    veined of moss
    framed in lichen
    feathered at grey & blue
    here, i drink stone rains
    here, i bathe in sweat
    in steam's sharp relief

  • unsleeps

    i have been twisting
    bedsheets into ropes
    in unsleep at nights
    trying to untie my
    soul from tinctures
    of thorn and regret

    some black stones
    at the ocean and
    under a beggar's
    moon, hair flows
    rivers as night
    stars fall showers
    razoring fingers
    in the tweens

    a barred owl
    plays sentry in
    lush trees
    can i help but
    come when called?