Category Archives: Death
The Newspaper
space Already exhausted by mid-week, weary from overwork trying to shore up another failing attempt to find one paying niche in a dying industry, I slept hard and was taken deep into the sidhe of this dream: I was … Continue reading
Filed under Blue, Culture, Death, Dream, History, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Mystery, Otherworlds, Poetry, The Dark, The Future, The Sea
Rain
space Our town has seen little rain all year. Brushfires hang their smoky rags in the air for all to breathe with lungs of dearth already narrowed by swamp allergens. Char-ochres crayon burning dreams, scotched lawns silo each day’s scorched … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alchemies, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Death, Garden Lore, Grails, Grief, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Prayer, The Sea
Remembering Mark (Or Else)
space We see people come and go all the time at AA – two out of fifty newcomers will still be sitting there for our noon meeting a year after they first show up, and only one of them will … Continue reading
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Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Death, Madness and Mania, The Dark
May Day Oracle
A picture of my brother outside the St. Oran Bell Tower, taken by my father when the two were walking and talking the grounds of Columcille. Timm was there for my father’s 80th birthday; he died a year later. After … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Art and Heart, Death, Devotions, Grief, History, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry
The Poetics of Because
Photo: Tracey Grumbach space What comes after. What blooms because. Not the World Trade Center but its deeper pools of pouring souls. Not the starry gambol but its slow ruin into rain-streaked panes. Not the wooing but the way love … Continue reading
Filed under Aging, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Death, Devotions, Garden Lore, Grails, Immrama, Love, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Post-Christianity, Prayer
The Flood
space Your house by the sea is not a married one. You are lonely for your wife remembering how soft and open she sleeps, her pale body curving and falling around a green silk nightdress. Your heart breaks thinking of … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Death, Dream, Feral animals of the soul, Grails, Love, Madness and Mania, Natural Supernatural, Poetry, The Dark, The Sea
The Stand
space I don’t much recall how I got into those rooms—-at closing time all doors are dark-—though waking in memory always seemed the same, bedside in rooms lost in suburbs you know are out there yet pray to never see, … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Art and Heart, Blue, Death, Devotions, Feral animals of the soul, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Immrama, Love, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Noir, Poetry, Sexuality, The Dark, Voyagers
Icelandic Poppy
Photo: Timm O’Cobhthaigh space The bonfire of its widest bloom is almost terrifying were it not so sweet, a welcome shattering my morning reveries with its orange and yellow bell, its beauty freighted in from those regions of blue ice … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Death, Devotions, Garden Lore, Grails, Grief, Love, Natural Supernatural, Otherworlds, Prayer, Remembrance
Graveyard Shift At The Crystal Cabaret
space Four to six a.m.’s my show, scrubbing the tables and running the vacuum, Journey on the PA system blasting evergreen desire over the night’s trashed pasties. The mess is predictable, the squalor of lust that pays such a high … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Aging, Beauty Heals, Culture, Death, Devotions, Grails, Love, Madness and Mania, Noir, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry
