crow scratchings: ᚾᛉᚲ

fires rising towards the
midnight sun
red burning brands
raised, pressed & cauterize
false worlds fall aside
between stone & bone

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crow scratches – ᚨᛜᚾ

winter breath carries
blood heart songs

crow laughing from
cottonwood
wrinkles multiply
on hand

symbolisms
ᚨ ansuz
ᛜ ingwaz
ᚾ nauthiz

three runes: ᚺ ᚹ ᚾ

forgetting names
faces & places
a drifter
on windswept
winter plains

ice breaking...
staff, then step
then step, then staff
steady

no firebrand behind
no flame before
burning from the
inside wherever this
old crow roams

symbolisms
ᚺ hagalaz
ᚹ wunjo
ᚾ nauthiz

three runes: ᚾ ᛇ ᛟ

darkened veils
obscure both sides
yesterday is tomorrow
eyes bound to hearthfires
by threads
crimson & lean

outside:
snowfox & crow,
bright winter sun

cross to the
big empty

symbolisms
ᚾ nauthiz
ᛇ eihwaz
ᛟ othala

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

three runes: ᛗ ᚦ ᚾ

to see through new eyes
putting spark to flame

that: cousin to the moon
that: kindling in a forest
buried in snow

heart sister's voice
piercing the wave
and a sea of bone

symbolisms
ᛗ mannaz
ᚦ thurisaz
ᚾ nauthiz

three runes: ᚹ ᚾ ᛈ

a smile of shadow
changewinds come
twisting me back
into shape

needle scratch & ink
stones & bones

symbolisms
ᚹ wunjo
ᚾ nauthiz
ᛈ pertho

three runes: ᚦ ᛈ ᚾ

i am the underground

underworlds life river snaking
from hazelnut wells
drinking me in &
finding balance
before falling to freedoms

i am the underground
it was always meant
to be

symbolisms
ᚦ thurisaz
ᛈ pertho
ᚾ nauthiz

three runes: ᛜ ᚾ ᚠ

passing through dolmen
painted sacred colors:
scarlet, black, and white

at each, a seed planted
an agony of growth
out of the long dark
a bounty issued

bear waiting,
hungry after the cold

symbolisms
ᛜ ingwaz
ᚾ nauthiz
ᚠ fehu

three runes: ᛃ ᛋ ᚾ

and so--
another beginning

seven stages
through the forge
time to put away
old threads frayed
& spin anew

symbolisms
ᛃ jera
ᛋ sowilo
ᚾ nauthiz

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