Tag: betwixt and between

  • pop

    Campfire
    Photo by Ville Palmu on Unsplash
    gather bones
    gather leaves
    gather poppets
    gather strings

    pop cracks stone

    dancing fire
    dancing sparks
    dancing poppets
    dancing leaves

  • rattle the bones

    Photo by pedram ahmadi on Unsplash
    everything too suchness
    fan rattle to flame seething
    and shudder limbs shake

    ragged wrap in arms
    of rags and wraith
    chasing all elder ways

    knock the stone fell
    rattle the bones
    shake in clenched silence

    rattle all those bones

  • thistle & woad

    Photo by Mandy Bourke on Unsplash
    with a head full of thistle &
    hands stained of woad
    skating away over water to
    while away a spell
    with the acorn man

    you probably
    would not understand
    that has become a given
    over these near
    twin scored years

    and so it comes to
    wander this wodewood alone
    chatting with oaks
    in the blackthorn
    with a head full of thistle &
    hands stained of woad

  • in the weald

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    gone to wode
    in the weald
    gone to fever 
    in the head
    would he to wild
    oh darkling, at
    spanning rivers
    in his bed

  • woodenhead

    Photo by Alberto Arroyo on Unsplash
    oh, woodenhead
    come in from the rain
    quit your thefts
    seeking a beauty
    outside for a one
    that is within

    all crows make argue
    for your eyes—
    you do not use them
    anyway, they say
    instead, my woodenhead
    you are a' thieving out
    in the pouring rain

  • inertia

    Photo by Ronin on Unsplash
    to river our walks
    through autumn, i
    hold the by and bye
    between the burning
    and the dry decay
    brown to crisp underfoot
    talking the nonsense
    of water twisting eddy
    burble a river on roam
    ever youth in motion
    a kiss of inertia
    a kiss to november's
    home

  • in your pale

    Photo by Dana on Unsplash
    seeking switches
    to flip to the off
    turn down the bed
    tune out the head
    let the phantoms
    have their haunt

    whisper the winds
    my name as the same and
    yours the forever unknown
    and i don’t care
    what you’re called
    just haunt my halls
    in your pale

  • become of long

    Photo by Kevin Hessey on Unsplash
    given fresh rain fallen
    a sanctuary in grey
    wash away the stain

    desire burns fleeting
    quench all heat away
    embrace river flowing

    puddle rings watercolor
    mirrors of granite sky
    i become of long man
    i become of long

  • enjoin me

    a path in the middle of a dark forest
    Photo by Wes Hicks on Unsplash
    the troubles keep and
    none of them mine
    there is no time to cry

    i step to oak & slender
    the place within
    i could dream all day &
    all night in the within

    flint, cuts skin, bone
    to drag me of wood
    spell some silence
    for me, one who sees
    enjoin me to whole

  • seek no

    settle to stone and
    quit with the roam
    seek no, seek no more

    to take axe to axel
    to stop up the ramble
    seek no, seek no more

    follow low water
    flow dark home
    seek no, seek no more