Be right still and know this sign, Taken from the gorge’s tears, Weeping stone, a stolen grace. Beneath the stars they malign, Destiny of brittle night, Be right still and know this sign. Bounty of the nameless fears, Grow upon … Continue reading Weeping Stone Tercet
Too early they wake up, the Old Man prodding the boy gentle with a work stained finger. “Hey, come on. We will go,” he gestures to the door. The boy notices how his father’s accent has become even more pronounced … Continue reading Ashes in the Dawn
Surrounded, exhausted and lost If the stars had stayed in rivers I would have never seen the cost Counted the laws of a bitter rain All conjunction beyond riposte When the days became under pain Then maybe we had never … Continue reading Exhausted
Crossed an ocean of bitter white snow and felt the shuddering decline of a cold world that may need never have been all this lightness and two lanterns are waiting warriors contained in the skin on an apple three coloured … Continue reading An Ocean of Snow
Weary taste of a walk Rain unanticipated, Fostered by the end of all things Head fuzzy and grass Bursting into bloom Continue reading Taste of a Walk
This is not the way between ruinous spaces to find empty light Continue reading Chapel Haiku
Here is a cycle, stories about slums Spices and nonsense, Stripes and drill holes in limestone Hang the scythes in the trees and count the rhythm as the ruptured land Passes beneath your feet The Gods took this land and … Continue reading Cadence
We prehistoric, we transcend the waters flowing round this bend these sunless valleys seek to mend A weary heart so eroded Whorl of dust and sound corroded This is where we breathe time to spend in Service of stars exploded Continue reading Whorl
Blaze of Obscurity 