Mastery Ill-used Taints Truth

Material success cannot protect us from ill fortune. The Gods can be jealous, and even the strongest fortress can fall to the ground. This is a warning against complacency and smugness. All that we achieve is as fragile as a house of cards, and may collapse at the slightest breath. Lies will out.

For You

What happens if you find yourself in a different place,
and you find that you, in this place, are a different person?
Maybe you don't even know this person you have become, but
the person you have become has been waiting right here,
in this new place, for a long, long time. Biding, abiding.

You may find yourself thinking of the moth that beats against
the pane, and of the pain of dislocation, of finding oneself
in entirely the wrong place for using ones wings for their
true purpose. You may look at yourself and wonder what became
and what will become and wing through the night sky, moon lit.

Sorcery is a strange art. It encompasses all others and surpasses
all. A poem released into the wild will work its wordspell in a wide
world of endless interconnections until, one. single. moment. when.
it finds purchase and a whole new life spins outward. Becoming
winged, wheeling moonward. A light, a light bringer. Constellation.

Night of the Nacho Knife Fight

A friend arrives late night bearing a delicious snack. Greasy chips doused in orange “cheese,” gas station nachos from down the road. (Jalapeño slices may have been present, but reports were vague on this point.) The intended recipient declines the snack, at which point his room-mate-cousin appropriates it and begins his repast. Presumably, seeing his cousin’s enjoyment of the nachos the cousin who first rejected them attempts to reclaim them. “Nacho nachos, man,” the dining cousin replies. He cites the well known legal concept of possession and it’s portion of the law. The nacholess cousin attacks, drawing his knife and the melee bursts into street.  Blows are traded and the nacho eater is cut, meanwhile the friend who brought the nachos calls police.

Trusting

Trusting ones self to speak
Trusting the words to work
Trusting thoughts to form
Trusting the world to crack
Trusting the light to spark
Trusting the spark to light
Trusting the stars to burn

Blue Marble Girl

Earth turns, and the sleepers waken to oppose the lurking vultures before they devour...

For T

One Thing, Everything, Leads to Infinity

Everything makes ripples throughout the available dimensions. Attention is essential.