elegy, on summer’s dark moon, for a friend who travels on

in the dark i lay body to body, a stranger to my bed much  as the stranger in my bed who isno stranger, man whose breath i am able to taste when he’s awaywho for two years sleeps aside other in the dark sleeps asidethe child growing darkness of my  heaving womb to his bare back…

field notes on animism. tracking~

day 1. to find the sacred circle. it will open itself to you as it did when the tree breeze led you there the first time. begin with faith in this. trust the ecology. the calf high lime green underbrush tho unknown to you now is friend yet to be met. the holly grove is…

So much more to go

I think back on cabin time, that last night with the silver moon under the spring born trees. We’d had that miraculous equinox together under the old growths at the Susquehanna basin only days before, then because I took off for my birthday week finally for the first time in so very many months I…

Dark Moon to Summer Solstice

Fireflies sparking up the edges of the inky night…honeysuckle intoxicants ringing green around the vine…ahhhh dear loves, must be Summa Time That’s right, tomorrow’s New Moon cycle brings about Litha, or the Summer Solstice, which also means today and this week so far overall, we’re in and have been in that deep stronghold of forced…

Week of wild roses

In the morning on the front porch in full white light of the sun I thought about patience and talked to the Mystery a long while. Sorta felt my worries burn off. Drank nettle tea because I had too much oatstraw this week. I studied Jesus the year I was 30 for a whole year,…

My prayer

My prayer for us allthat the language of the sun heals youthe light and earth replenish your soulEarth Magic is RealSun Magic is Realthat the magic of the Mystery present herespeak its own or your most reverent termsas for me, the sea shall tend my wearinessI pray you the samedeliverance, dear friends Happy Friday !

New moon today

Today’s new moon has me in a mind of the importance of the concept, “Both, And~” It is a depth development premise, the ability to discern nuances and subtleties within ourselves. As in starting within, how we relate to our Self, literally how we speak and think to ourselves. This translates to the experience of…

Some reason Choptank

Some reason Choptank’s been on my mind, ever since the island this morning. Chop was Fall of 2008. I lived there in a house built in 1848. That winter I had to wear double long johns the whole time bc it cost too much to run the propane heat. I lived w a recent divorcee,…