A Liar, Divine
The moon is a
knife-slash in the dark
through which we see
the light beyond.
I believe nothing else.
I fell in love with
a liar, divine. He
taught me the truth
of story, showed
me the places where
lines blur, told me that
truth and beauty
needn’t marry. He
smirked and it was
a blade.
My blood
made glyphs and
they rained art
upon my feet.
I danced all night and made the moon swell. She
was goddess
then, my deity.
Change is her
only law.
She twists away
and is bright fire, He
curls toward me
and snow falls.
I am fearless and hale.
I never look back.
She opens a banshee wail
and it is silent. His whispers echo
off walls.
My home is a cavern,
glistening with
joy’s crystal tears.
I run everywhere.
I only ever laugh.
My heart is untethered.
I love only you.
He lies and I
see what’s real:
I give away too many
truths.
——
Story, August 2016
Tag: paganism
untitled Thor poem
1.
You ride on the
taste-scent of rain,
the ozone breeze that
rushes over me
like a tidal pullGravitas—
a hammer, hard
on an anvilthe strike as
weighty as a moon
bearing full, pregnant lightbut wild, joyful folly
stirs & drags me,
bare feet in wet soil
back to the
Old Ways,
the dark forest &
fallen trees, rotten wood
black from last season
soft from these spring stormsthe hammer aloft,
you light up
heavy limbs
dark crannies
shadowed moods
& the earth, electric,moves
to take in
Bolts of crackling
power, roaring
courses of water,
racing winds & wildling hearts
drumming hard in time beaten
by thunderclaps2.
I feel you smile,
son of the Wanderer,
when your shadows
blot out our starAnd you ask,
“Wonderer,
who brings the storm,
& when you dance in my rain,
will you speak
my name?”tagging some people who maybeeee??? like poetry for con-crit or helping me title it or just reading fun or whatever:)
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I was a lot less thrilled with Thor when freakishly loud thunder woke me up twice last night and drove my cat under the couch…