Monthly Archives: May 2024

Always Easter

Here is another late-night instant lyric. The Christian imagery is plain, but so is something pagan running alongside it. Poetry meant so much to me when I was young, obsessed me so entirely at times, that I swore to do … Continue reading

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Tail-Biter, Explained

Here is another ‘tail-biter’–a species of poem in which the ending rings round and reveals the beginning in a different light. Go back and reread, and it will be a different poem that it was the first time. These poems … Continue reading

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Lonely Working

‘Here’ is a little story of how I came to be. Late at night and quick as lightning: 6 May 2024 Your Lonely… She came dressed in a robe of such shimmering colors– look at the state of my arms’ … Continue reading

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Slippers

It was late at night, as usual. Lines started running through my head. A bit of whimsy slipped through, although it’s serious too. We are slippers in the sense of ‘time slips,’ slipping into the Imaginal: 4 May 2024 In … Continue reading

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Old-Fashioned

Everything I make is at least a little old-fashioned, but this tiny lyric is especially so. It came to me after a friend shared some verses about flowers: 2 May 2024 Whose Heart? Your heart describes a fairy-ring where all … Continue reading

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Beltane

Lately I have marked the ten-year anniversary of my partner’s death. This came last night, after a long break. We shall see what follows: 30 April 2024 Still Beyond Telling Clear through the midst of the storm as the air … Continue reading

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