These bracts no longer proud and green, Now are Fall’s ruin on the ground, A tapestry in dark unseen They gossip with the whispered sound Our footfall’s memory long past As Cernunnos’ game plays on A symphony of shadows fast … Continue reading Dark Forest is Home
Stood to a flow of meaning in the babble of elm leaves and berries with toxic seeds, sour and tiny brought words home to you in place of your legs asked why the pavements sat so low ate wild cherry … Continue reading A Fallen Moon
He fell from a balcony Small rise unwilling Tried to negotiate a muddy trail To find a tree we climbed And there was too much anger That none else could manageEach fall I picked him up So light now Put … Continue reading Falling to Earth
Shoals of light are wandering hopeless lost, you touched the rain Rubbed the soil on your brow Red paint, lazy rivers Mist and the vines of abandoned light Captured in a heart’s ease Sun fell away Cracked tiles. Continue reading River Walk
She held his hand, and everything was a puzzle, fingers intertwined, the spaces where there was no air was filled with rain drops, the grass reduced to a kind of living grouting between the mosaic of leaves. He held on … Continue reading Mosaic
The forest has shrugged off the cloak of night-cold that beset our journey’s beginning, and the filtered green light of the forest provides a welcome relief from the incongruous summer heat on the mountain. A wooden sign tell us that … Continue reading Somewhere Far Deeper
Rose thorns in my skin memories in my ears Cypress and lawn clippings tear away the years Continue reading Vein
Ten thousand tall spears cut the horizon to pieces then dropped all their leaves Continue reading Forest Senescence Haiku
Blaze of Obscurity 