tower

i watched the
tower tumble
her love like
thunder and the
flickerlight
casting crooked
colors across
her eyes

destination indigo

nightdriving that
forever highway
lemondrop center
   one way or another
   destination indigo

mirror rust

mirror rust
staining that
other face
antiqued framed
in hair tarnished
silver

a mouth's cruel
betrayal smirking

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

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

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