a WRITE_1
of passage

passage: from περᾰ́ω (peráō)

to go from one side to another

to pass through, over or traverse, cross, esp. over water

(intransitive) to penetrate or pierce (of a pointed weapon)

Ravens

The ravens have arrived

to pick over

the carcass

of my good intentions

Send

The per-mutating pale echo

of meaning slides through

time.

Sometimes pausing, sometimes

pushing forward until

it finds the just

moment.

Frayed from its passage

through words

Or cloaked in the dust of signal

Both more and less

Amber

Updated: Dec 11, 2022

Nurturing a way of life is not the same as

capturing

it in amber.

A viscous resin encases

limbs and minds

No-thing takes flight

no wings flap

No seed germinates

in the sticky sap

A conserve, a marmalade,

a jam of stasis.

Passages already

medieval

narrowly

hold us fast.

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COLLECTIONS

DEATH BY AGREEMENT

some seem to have agreed a pact for passage.
tidings hard to fathom.

STRANGE WATERS

experimental forms and thoughts that seem to come from elsewhere

AS IT IS

here now: this is what we find, this is what we see, this is what finds us

TRACERY

second and third associations. words and shapes.

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ANGRY RED SUN, PALE SHADOWED NIGHT

a second stab at a book-style tranche of writings. formed in the end not entirely how it was intended.

THROUGH LIGHT

first steps. written mostly past midnight through dawn. night muse visitations.

WHO AM I?

Strandloper, edge-dweller, being. Sometime poet.

This site began as insomnia. Soon there were enough words for a book (Through Light). A little later, another collection was almost a book (Angry Red Sun, Pale Shadowed Night). Then came snatches of someone's thoughts from somewhere (As It Is). Dark tidings have also been received (Death by Agreement).
Along the way there are words on a plane (Tracery).

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