cutting dawn

flowing mercuric
from dream to drum
humming, under cloak
& hood hearing the
murder crows gathering
at first facet razors
cutting skies with dawn

charred

i ache to have someone
pull me kicking, shrieking
out of my rice paper box
make my mind stutter
shudder, and drift away
like gunsmoke on the
high desert plains
one question to make
my brain burn charred
to cinder until there is
nothing left upstairs
a string of words that
mindfucks me, leaves
me wasted, exhausted
drawn into thoughts
i have not considered
before

seen

weary of being invisible
i crawled into bed
pulled blankets over my
head & left the scene

8+

grey skin & sun
blind alder red
fingering shabby
scarf at the end
of the world

eight ways & center
arthritic shambling
to the water's
cold embrace

alchemy of kind

razoring romance
to shave, chisel
myself into meat
for the machine
stone ground
and scattered to
the arctic winds

bone growing dry
in at the forest's edge

three runes: ᛉ ᚾ ᛒ

sheltered under
snow & stone
waiting for the sun

dressed in white
she comes prancing
through drift & dream

nudging my cairn
"follow me down," says she
steam over water rising

symbolisms
ᛉ algiz
ᚾ nauthiz
ᛒ berkana

hunt

paint me in alder
send me to shale
wind crow song
antler velvet
winter sun

trials

two hours of sleep
more work piles up
sad trombone

processional

they came
sending you over
yoiking and keening
  water, ice and flame
one last goodbye
fading away
with the burning
steel lastlight of sun

three runes: ᛗ ᛒ ᚱ

riding rocky paths
a break from threaded
gentle roads
my heart my drum
my fire & song
crow heals raven
heals birch heals
stone

sun on my face
homeward bound

symbolisms
ᛗ mannaz
ᛒ berkana
ᚱ raido