Tag: poetry

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?

21 Apr 25

trinkets

we are carved
jagged of purpose
we are wraps
we are rags
we flint, we thorn
we tooth, we bone
suns twinned, southern low
cracked lips, nail broke
ragged

we winter in heart
waiting for blood

21 Apr 25

ever the stones

*Photo by Cornelia Munteanu on Unsplash*

there is a hollow in the center where
only the trees & ever the stones
know my name

blind, the trailhead of myrkr & mist
look to ancestors below your feet
recalling we are all related
spreading as spores & tendrils
on & on

remember november?
for the chill rains falling, i sheltered
at the hollow on the center where
only the trees & ever the stones
know my name

21 Apr 25

slag cast, drawn

black wooden fence on snow field at a distance of black bare trees — *Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com*

drawing razorwire taut tendons
tight breath rustneedle intake
bury me leaves under shallow
bury me leaves under stone
rain wash silt the river down
rain wash silt the river down

fidget fingers making shadow words
fidget fingers making broken songs
fidget finger fidget misfit
metal gestalt cuts memory sharp

close winter my eyes of
slag cast, drawn...

20 Apr 25

acceptance

dizzy for the ringing
we shambled to heartwood
sought our way to breathing
taking in the place where
we are already beautiful
if only we can shed skin
and cast off our rags
others have bound us
within

if trees accept us
as we are, can we
accept the trees?

20 Apr 25