“In the hand of the goddess”
Divine and mortal
Fingers entwined, dark through light
Mother and daughter

“In the hand of the goddess”
Divine and mortal
Fingers entwined, dark through light
Mother and daughter
cupped in my palm
weary bee sipping honey
we talk of lavender
“Prayer”
lotus bloom unfolds
open arms and open heart
transcending language
“Evening Walk”
rabbit kit dying in the grass
dead bumblebee on the blacktop
setting sun bleeds red
These dreams of you are
Echoes from my subconscious
Just phantom limb pain
I watch my state burn
Blood sacrifice to hubris
And can do nothing
Hot summer evening
You pass in a motel hall
Just going for ice
I make friends with moths
Envious of artlessness
Holiness writ small
It’s beyond salvage
Ashfall shrouding charred ruins
No one’s noticed yet
My muses dumped me
How embarrassing is that?
Rats flee sinking ships
In my dreams, Her lips
Red as ripe pomegranates
the Queen of Heaven
Circles overlap
Body, spirit; sex, gender
But where? And how much?
A heavy gold coin
Hangs low on the horizon
The Morrigan’s moon
Inside every cat
Burns a spark of Egypt’s sun
Divine, eternal
Your hands are a cage
You let nothing fly away
So fearful of love
I am the sun disk
I blaze! I burn! I destroy!
I see all, know all
“Titanic”
Sleep, oh weary wreck
Salt water dissolves your bones
The tides soothe your ghosts
With these words I buy
A moment of sanity
Precious yet fleeting
Beneath shifting sands
Secrets slumber, dark deeds dream
The ancients awake
They slew the goddess
Buried her temples and name
Yet still she rises
Endless golden fields
Reeds whispering in the wind
There lost love awaits
Like all lovely lies
Your gifts vanish with the dawn
More harm than good, they
Bast be my lit torch
Protect me until day dawns
I walk in your light
I am a ghost town
Built around a dried-up well
Oh how the winds cry
āSilentā
amid ash and fog
there you will find an answer
beware the sirens
āDyatlovā
a tent half buried
the wind keens a mourning song
footprints in the snow
wife slumbers in peace
between us the curled cat purrs
Saturday morning