All we need is one good thing, A lilting, catapulting fraction of stars, A memory rising, A hope just born, Leading from the mire. All we need, one fragrant spark, An errant, spiralling shimmer, A chrysalis new, A promise, Propping broken bones. All we need, a raging stream, A cauldron, Read more…
Iridescent blue, hints of teal, Raging splendor and ash, In braided tangles of light, They rise, In braided tangles of light. Supple limbs, now grown warm, Passionate, feasting in air, In river-wild dances of joy, They run, In river-wild dances of joy. Wasted wood and brittle bark, Branches, veins laid Read more…
We cross it together. Once over, we part, They to the ether, they to the mist, Shadows departing, lifetimes undone, And we to a hardscrabble road. When going or gone we are never alone, The child – abandoned – the last lover’s tears. If many or few there are those Read more…
Ice!
You’re a feisty old thing, aren’t you! You’re damn right I am!
Alright, open wide. I’ll try not to spill on your neck…
There is something at the beginning of the longest walk. There is something that is inevitable, unavoidable, and utterly without room for change – a square block in a square corner. It cannot be mistaken. It cannot be hidden – not with any lasting honesty. Just as her cells are Read more…
There is something unknowable, undoable, and completely unattainable in the journey. Even after it is finished, there is still that which remains unknown and undone. And it will remain so until my own journey ends. Breathe. It is all you can do for now. Breathe. She can no longer taste Read more…