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Ragdoll
Do me a passing kindnessor give me just one word without spiteI’ll let you fold me like a paper tigressor dance me like a kite. You can keep me in your toy boxand show me to your friends.Just dust me off when you rememberthat I am lost beneath the bed. I’ve whirled a dervish worth…
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Mare
Is this a home?Or some gilded prison?In the dark dullness of a dead eyethat watches from the limenI work the loom,I cast the dyeI jig the spindle. I wish I was beneath wild skies;drinking in their visions.Free to be unclothed, unwove, untangledand drenched by the decantingof their stormy wisdom. Instead I slip between the morning…
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A World Destroying God
Today I became a world destroying godand broke the rainand ate the sun from the skyand flipped the storms up from the sandtornadoed and volcanoedand pelted the landwith hail hail hail And I was not phased or furiousnor shamedmy action methodical never spuriousnothing to venture nothing to gain. A world destroying god I becamewhen I…
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First People
I see in the eye of my sister,her hair wrapped with seaweedand the flagstone shore we are walking;The songs of first peopleher skin is singing. I see in the eye of the needlethe hawthorn fish hook, the hollow in the spindle woodthe spungham and moons blood;the fingers, ebony and ochreof first people.The hazel tree is…
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A Woman with Horns
I am a horned woman, who stands with bleeding palms,berryful and beauty stricken by the wind and weather that is unconditionally ours.I stand at the edge of your desiresand tend to your ember with the rations,the onionskins and paper kindling to slowly bring you alight.layers that peel, I unsheath sheet by sheet,night by night Not…
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Saint of The Wild
She, the saint of wild things.The one that we monthly bury. She, the kin of den dreams.She, the one who kens me. She, the blood of the well, the faint metallic smell, the heave of the still horned heifer, the grief of the still born’s mother. She the saint of dying on the earth, in…
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Ash Tree
In WinterI burn you to ashes,so I can inhale you.Churn your essence with my spitour seed in my mouth,put us in the ground. A thin film of the starlight of your body,there on our seedwaiting to be splitopen by the yearning,of the unfamiliarmemoryof living. I wretch and writhevomit up the bile of beinghalf-linghalf lifehalf alight…
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Altar
Last duskGrandmother shook the earthandspoke in her husky timbre ‘Go now child it’s time to drop your feathers,go on and shed your torn and tattered skins.Laid fresh on some one elses altar,their use is not worn thin.’ She said to me‘it’s time now, go’‘Gift your best meant blessing,hark your sternest cautions,bury rusted hatchets,hang out your…
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The Earth
I am the EarthThat is why you fear meI am her scarsHer fertilityHer deep secret reservoirsSet ablaze at the end of history. I am the EarthYou cannot escape meAlthough you fantasize a different destinyI am your creatrixI am your bloodYour bonesYour body. I am the EarthYou can try to reject meCorrect meRape meAnd neglect meYou…
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Opal
A lover left me yesterday.We held each other and cried so long that he missed his bus twice.His eyes are lit behind mine as a spectrum of colours I feel like I’ve never seen dance side by side before.He never let me look in his eyes too long, he found it too intense.To be stared…
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