• Thunder coming

    red lightning flashing on black sky
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    Thunder the skies drum to rumble and many ears blind to the coming storm, yet calling some home to wrap themselves under both cloak and shield. Come the mists that deaden sight but for those with the spears driven to pierce.

    We cast to birch, cleave to stones rising grey in undergrowth. Her rasp cuts the winds as she calls forth. Children! Children, come in!

    Let the hunters flail; they are not our kin. Let them blindstep the pathways, missing us, their quarry, just beyond the thin.


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  • warden

    Photo by Ovidiu Cozma on Unsplash
    circling threes from trees
    birch white paper of black
    calling out his name
    from the wending ways
    a warden in the weald

    we are flight we are free
    bending skies to our own
    shaking wood, twisting stone
    to lay alone of earthwomb
    wrapped in fevers

    a fragment found.
    a key —

    head tilt and a shout,
    a return to north winds

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  • Reflection

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    It is more clear than ever that most cannot understand my sometimes, those veilgliding moments on betweens — this river of mine of many dreams that flows within. Come to rest within the hollows and eddies spinning and turning with me and you might see how I see. And then, you may ask yourself…

    In a flurry of down and feather I came to rest. There she is, the I that was. There he is, the I that will. Onyx eyes wander the memory wastelands, sipping at an oasis of color; a little here, a little there. I am so many. And they all want to talk, some just more silent in their speech than others.

    If only one person understood the sometimes… But the thin places are only rarely found.

    Dark eyes haunting the wrinkled silver of dust-etched mirrors, they are the ghosts that trail behind like scarlet ribbons on mountain winds as the snow drifts over age-worn cairns.


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  • dogs

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    her face in the mirror
    all mine not mine and
    there is rust washing
    to be done on old chains
    in the barren playlot

    she the me locking unlocking
    six-paneled doors wood
    of ghetto apartments
    a gulag of memories jailed
    rape is not right
    not a right
    but we, me and she
    promise the no cry no more

    come knocking,
    come knocking
    down the corridor
    and i hold she as me
    in our striped stained bed
    crying hush to those
    howling dogs of war

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  • waiting spears

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    some times we chat all
    others, silent stand tall
    let gossip the pines
    in trade on winds
    bring on day
    carry our night
    bones given rain
    featherfall out of sight
    we gaze for winter
    waiting spears...

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