Category Archives: History
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
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
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
The Mermaid Wife
“Mermaids Kissing” by Alphonse Mucha space The water seeress comes to me up from the abysm of our sleep, a fish-woman both animal and numen, scaly-nubile, her voice in the sea so blent in blue that dreams crest and breast … Continue reading
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Devotions, Grails, History, Immrama, Love, Oran, Otherworlds, Post-Christianity, The Sea
Summer Blockbuster
space On that greater screen our hero finds a bomb packed in a van. We hear with him the ticks of doom, and though his face is calm as ironed leather, tense cellos burn a hidden fuse of terror in … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, History, Life, Memoir, Otherworlds
Sunday Morning
This poem was written on Easter morning, 2001. space Last summer when you and I were trying to repair first word of my affair —- days when you raged so at the badness of it all -— there was a … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Dream, Grails, History, Immrama, Madness and Mania, poetics, Poetry
My Important Life
The Bosnian capital of Sarajevo today. In the foreground, the soccer field where some 10,000 citizens were buried during the siege of the city between 1992 and 1995. space The siege of Sarajevo by Serbian goons went on for three … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Culture, Death, Grief, History, Literature, Madness and Mania, Poetry
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
Filed under Alchemies, Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Arthurian Romance, Celestial events, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Death, Devotions, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Grails, Grief, History, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Oran, Otherworlds, poetics, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark, The Future, Voyagers
The Okie Blademan’s Song
space I am a turbine tech for the county and I ride these windy roads climbing to God’s country to milk the whirling loads … Or at least that’s how I sing it driving out from Woodward to the wind … Continue reading
