just one [05jun23]

turning toward the within
to better listen, see
the nameless beckon
through a veil of pain
to a place, fireside

I’m reflecting on a single rune, nauthiz, today. It may be a new habit for me.

Kami, manitou, “the spirits” — however you wish to name them — wait with infinite patience for me to present myself for instruction. I trim away the fat and give them sinew, bone and meat.

casting the runes: ᚦᛇᚺ

pricked septic & bled
in barren stone fields
& abandon

scraping bone on bone
strain to push through
outer doors to
hel's hanging garden

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runes in this poem:
thurisaz
eihwaz
hagalaz

casting the runes: ᛏᛁᚲ

dry, cold husks
dead things
set to flame
upon the pyre

 stone eyes
turn toward
tundra & fell

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runes in this poem:
tiwaz
isa
kenaz

casting the runes: ᛒᛉᛚ

washing bones hollow
lakeside & polish
black feathers float
with windswept waves

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runes in this poem:
berkana
algiz
laguz

casting the runes: ᛖᛉᛁ

raventhorn
pricking at icewind
lowered head
& guardset
bonebleached,
straif & ward

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runes in this poem:
ehwaz
algiz
isa

casting the runes: ᛒᚠᚱ

earth mother black
underwhite scraping
lichen-on-stone
blood for journeys
food for bone
move as the winter
drift ever on

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runes in this poem:
berkana
fehu
raido

casting the runes: ᚢᚷᛖ

greetings exchanged
backyard chatter
on drizzle days

done with
small-talk
black crow
flies away

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runes in this poem:
uruz
gebo
ehwaz

casting the runes: ᛟᛏᛒ

doors into memory
open outward
stabbing northward
young birch
growing with lichen,
moss-covered granite in
unforgiving tundra

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runes in this poem:
othala
tiwaz
berkana

casting the runes: ᛒᛈᛞ

new dawn rising
drawing out
corruption
twisting luck
to will & sun
a pure kiss
from shadows

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runes in this poem:
berkana
pertho
dagaz

casting the runes: ᛖᚾᚹ

new motives arising
a reminder of what
might have been
had one only followed
the moon instead
of stars
everything encircled
in bleached bone
giving to spirits on
the wind

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runes in this poem:
ehwaz
nauthiz
wunjo

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just one [05jun23]

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