tincture these reflections of
tracing sweat beads down
your side with a kiss, pressing
cherry petals to your skin
and on drunk your wine
lost, so lost, this time again
Category: writing
lost, so lost
VMH Ep 6.3: Stilmere is live
start readingVengeance, My Heart The Argument:
A stranger pushes, ends up with a fistful of husks.
Fences go beyond mending.
A crow agrees.Episode 6.3 of Vengeance, My Heart (episode link), my serialized Sepulchral-Gothic Western novel, is now live at ravensweald.art.
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(more…)slipping snares
slipping those witchy snares
letting hedges fall away—
i am not here to cosplay
i sky scree lake water blue
i dark root mycelium bound
i æsclāst, that wending path
fever, dreams draw heat
forest and wode, grown old
crows rise calling—
blood on virgin snowlark on the morn
Today I draw dark lines in charcoal on parchment so thin as to air. All gravities pull in your direction and the angles bend true, in teeth-branded skin and hurt so good.
Head wrapped in linen for better to see. My fingers dance liminal, waiting for the telegraph of dream. Can you see the words writ in water? The ripples cross my dark lines in coal drawn on angle to you.
Granites love your gravity, antlers turn their curves to thee.
And, it is in this I apprehend. Waiting on the morning lark to call you into being.
casting runes — 12may26
othala ancient this wood
sheltering spirit
a compact made
in the ever ago
moss at north
& lichen scalloped
at deadfall we hoard
fox bark, underdark
a crow calls, naming
from branch & from floorA poem prompted by a randomly selected Elder Futhark rune.
Today’s rune is othala, which has a core meaning of “heritage”, “inheritance” and “legacy”. These are all associated with home, kin, ancestors, stability and (in some interpretations) past lives or spiritual legacy.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
oculus obscura
i am not of dreaming
her eyes mind not me
laugh crow at skies
laugh stone at feet
i am hoar of unnight
shattered & unseen
laugh flint scrape skin
laugh bone under meno such thing
those lips still cut
with every touch
with every view, so
tie me to the screen
to bring them closer,
still closer, to me
there is no such
thing, love
there is only bruise
a thumb pressed to
heart-boxes caged
within rows of ribs
and vanities
so give over blind
a seer for sweet pain
rending through
to see so clear
it hurtsVMH Ep 6.2: Stilmere is live
start readingVengeance, My Heart The Argument:
Things are on the Turn or on the Twist.
A landscape in cards.
Everything æsces on the wræclast.Episode 6.2 of Vengeance, My Heart (episode link), my serialized Sepulchral-Gothic Western novel, is now live at ravensweald.art.
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(more…)atelier
We held feather to flame and come out charred, there, in the underwood, the oaks rising sentinel high. The many mutter and shuffle, not wanting to be left behind. But the barrier is the bending of knee supplication, to both the underwood and also the trees.
And stiff knees bend not.
Though fevered and enflamed, I wish I could remain here kissing, improbable memories, unlikely times. We might talk to the old skull stone and antler, carving names with flint beyond the skin’s deep. We might slumber afterglow warm, sweat dripping chill on your side.
This bone atelier, sanctuary and rain. Inkstained. I close blind eyes tight to stay.
casting runes — 10may26
uruz a discarded broken thing
you wouldn't look twice
at what can be seen—
an old thing overlooked
raindrops splinter
on corrugated steelA rune poem, based on an Elder Futhark rune selected at random.
Today’s rune is uruz. The rune is named after the now-extinct aurochs, a wild ox and has become associated with standing up to challenges, having both confidence and courage, stubborn tenacity, and boundless strength and health. Uruz is alternately associated with the more raw elements which include rain, primordial potential, and the slag/dross cast away during the making of iron.
Please visit my Elder Futhark pages at sceadugenga.com for additional interpretations of the runes based on multiple references and personal reflection.
