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Hoy Alloy
Still feeling a bit reflective, having realized how many people I have lost in recent years, and how much I still feel their presences. My late partner was a poet, storyteller, all around literary person, and had a much more … Continue reading
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St. David’s
Today is the feast day of the native Welsh saint once called ‘the Waterman.’ Supposedly, that was because David–properly Dewi–abstained from alcohol. Odd, that–I live on a tidal river with many mariners for neighbors, and as far as I know, … Continue reading
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Tagged crossing-over song, death, formal verse, imaginal, imagination, incantation, inspiration, lore, lyric, magic, poetry, prosody, seal, selkie, spirits, spiritual, St. David, suicide, vision, visionary, Wales
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In This, and Any Other Hour
Less than one hour ago: 15 August 2016 13 All Feathers, Under Skin She’s laid aside the supple skin of woven silk that graced your nights for such a long, uneven time, the ghost who goes through shaded lights and … Continue reading
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Tagged death, elegy, formal verse, grief, imagination, inspiration, joy, loss, love, lyric, lyric verse, memory, mourning, mundus imaginalis, muse, mysticism, poem, poetry, prosody, requiescat, sadness, selkie, silkie, song, sorrow, soul, spirit, spirituality
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Sotry Here
6 June 6 2014 There’s a story here, and it is dedicated to someone I very deeply love—someone I will not see again. This won’t be spun for drama; it is sorrow that is already in many ways well sung. … Continue reading
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Tagged imagination, inspiration, loss, lyric, magic, muse, phoque, poem, sadness, seal, selkie, silkie, song
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Rain Harp 