Category Archives: Creativity

Hallucinating The Dead

View of the St. Oran Bell Tower (left) and field of standing stones, Columcille, PA. space The voices whisper everywhere in the boneyard barrow of my inner ear. Who are these murmuring folk reminding me I’m no good, no god, … Continue reading

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Wind in the Trees: A Tale of Madness and Mystery

space Spring came early to the land; winter never just got a grip this year, for whatever reasons. Just about everywhere it’s greener and warmer than normal, for most a month ahead of schedule. Today in Orlando it was hot … Continue reading

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Finn-gering

space When the fian are on the brink of the Suir, Culdub comes out of a sid or “elf-mound,” and steals their food three times in succession as it is being cooked. On the third occasion Finn ua Baiscne gives … Continue reading

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Sea-Copyist

space Quite the fool’s errand, eh Lord, measuring the breadth and depth of wildest seas with just these thimbles of white paper, a copyist in the sea’s scriptorium, writing down its book wave by gale by gloom. Might as well … Continue reading

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Water Master

space For some reason which is not quite clear the wise man in Irish tradition tends to be begotten by the God in the sea. – James Carney, Studies in Irish Literature and History A Dee n a nusqui nexamail … Continue reading

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Dreaming About Writing

“Lighthouse At Punto Sur” by Susie Clevenger. space In that dark surge of mayhem light I found myself pent, in great need to write. Maybe my mind knew it soon must wake to get to work here on the next … Continue reading

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Labyrinth

space Shine a light in here and you’ll find a once-gearless hell now churning in in a labyrinth tooled to proceed to the always next yet never final shore: A shire of glass beds and deep blue wells where she … Continue reading

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Poets Anonymous

space What are all those fish that lie gasping on the strand?            – Yeats Welcome friend, have some coffee to dispell the chill and rest that tired tailfin a while in this white plastic chair. … Continue reading

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The Tiddy Mun

space Limpelty lobelty the Tiddy Mun haunts the lost wetlands of my words, grey but not ghastly, a ghostly blue phosphor who perambles lands I will never know though I’m ever drawn there here in the next foray into water’s … Continue reading

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The Old Forest Road

space Taking a myth as one’s own is a way of reading opaque events. I have long believed that one’s personal history is simply a branch of a larger tree of mystery, the world’s larger soul re-written in the small … Continue reading

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