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Heartbeat
Dithyramb wails horizon's fall Crack the holy mount asunder Make tears and sweat and blood recall The spirit's dreaming thunder The wine...
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Anointment
Love is to worship a fallible god and, with faith, hold them close and adore them all the same
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Upon the Walls of Night
I think once my heart was a fire But we can hardly remember the people we once were Old friends in still images flickering through a hazy...
Jun 16, 20231 min read
Sic Semper Poetae
She was a lo-fi jazz song on a rainy day. Because That's exactly where I was on a day as such. And because, in truth, she was in every...
May 2, 20231 min read
Effigy
In every look and passing touch And of course In every word of promised love A signal "Can you see me?" "Can you understand?" That the...
Apr 11, 20231 min read
Erasmus of Form
Here in the riddens I pace Stricken and dissolving "Learn to be content" she says Correct, clearly And my spirit flees Wings dewed in...
Mar 27, 20231 min read
Molting
The skin of past lives are stifling Desert-dead and bloodless. I dreamt of digging a well right through my flesh to tap the spring. How...
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Hand in Hand
My father was a historian. I think because he had always had a perfect memory. And I the philosopher with a hole right through him
Jan 20, 20231 min read
Archeology in Light and Sound
I left the house on a Sunday night To clear my head The cold air was an honest lover and an empty sky How many years? I suppose I had...
Jan 20, 20231 min read
uv ajed
Strange, to find myself always arriving at places I've been two years Too late. Always on the way to where I'm at an meeting myself there...
Jan 20, 20231 min read
New Year: Shiva is an aspect
The plot inverts like foreground and background The cycle renews, great prison that it is. My karmic wheel? I yearn to break its...
Jan 1, 20231 min read
O night
I tried to keep the fire burning Clumsy fingers in the dark but all the breath is nothing without fuel enough and spark So I gathered up...
Dec 16, 20221 min read
Gyrebornew
What was done That I must heave fire Great shuddering gasps in the pre-dawn light. Sloughing spiritual flesh in kundalini de Composition...
Dec 2, 20221 min read
Hippocampus
It all began at once I'm told Time unfolding timeless and each every where everywhere So small you could hardly call it real A seed...
Nov 30, 20221 min read
Loom
My mother used to give me t-shirts to wear to bed Too large for the tiny life they contained They fell about me loose and ill-fitting Our...
Nov 9, 20221 min read
From your lips
A prayer is not so much words As a desperate plea to creation To love the creature it has made and say "Beloved, your need was a gift,...
Nov 9, 20221 min read
The body and blood
I was always too hungry To myself For morning. A smile is always so easy to say And when hands reached out to hold me I returned them...
Oct 12, 20221 min read
Seidr
Days array in winding paths, curving out of sight Ahead and Behind Not a one left behind Turning back is merely forward in disguise I...
Sep 27, 20221 min read
Oneiros
Starving child, heedless orphan, a need becomes quest becomes sword Your romance, your love, now a storm on the wind Just thunder and...
Sep 9, 20221 min read
Joice
And some days you are rippling gold Flowing heavy with the weight of your truth Innocent and cruel, in that endless august way May you...
Aug 3, 20221 min read
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