• you cannot see

    manticmined i bury myself
    in the understone covered
    fís and mistformed flowing
    scáthed, bran storied days
    under feathered of white
    rest now rest now
    pale blind enters night

    cut crimson rivers slow
    hazel once at the evening
    come oak slipped of the morn
    i am her come at blackthorn
    i am her come of snow

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  • Towards the Within | Dominion (cover) by Heartworms

    While not aways the case, I do like myself a good cover song now and again, just to see how a band reinterprets a song and tries to own it. I’ve never seen much point in a band that tries to make something sound exactly like the original — I mean, what’s the point? And there are a few songs and bands that just don’t translate well into a new sound (Doors, Zeppelin, post-Barrett Pink Floyd). But, on the balance, it is fun to see how a band tries to reimagine a song and make it their own.

    I’ve not made it any secret that I am a Sisters of Mercy fan (for the first two albums and early singles, anyway). And I’ve grown to really like the neo-gothic Heartworms after Chris Nelson introduced me to them at the beginning of summer. So, when I saw that JoJo and band performed a Sisters song in-studio, I definitely had to check it out.

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  • drift gather snow

    black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees
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    on drift gather snow
    crows wind draw
    singing to steel wire
    humming on breeze
    leaves painted frost
    in a lonesome place far
    waiting on gentle wings
    come to on
    drift gather snow

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  • Half-penny thoughts | 20aug25

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    I am on the drift again. The wending roads beckoning from my within, an untethering from my abouts.

    Though the weather is still too warm still for such things, I drew on my fleece jacket, pulled up the hood around my face and over my head as I walked from car to my once-a-week-office-space and felt at home within the folds of fabric. My bare legs incongruent with the jacket over my torso, but I could care less. I used to half-jest that I was made for kilts — my legs have always been too warm and I still wear shorts at home in the winter when everyone else wraps themselves in thick blankets.

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  • Truth

    person foot on water
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    I travel long distances without leaving my home.

    This is truth.

    I pull the hood over my head, cover my eyes and I am back on the road, blacktop beneath my soles, blackthorn in my hand, tall pines doused in their pungent cologne, rising tall and casting everything shadow.

    This is truth

    Blacktop fades to gravel fades to black dirt stained grey and the birch draw closer, birds talking from the broad reeds, powder puff cattails and rushes green. Giving directions. Giving meaning.

    This is truth.

    Feeling gravities pull to gloaming space, I ramble on.

    This is truth.


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