Category Archives: Madness and Mania
Merrow
space Sea-maid with your red-feathered cap, standing off the wildest western shores no one will ever name: Sing to me the daze of that collapsing wave which beds my smile in yours: What draws you to this beach only my … Continue reading
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
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
Vampyre
space On black foggy mornings like this I recall the vampyre who folded me in his black so red cape during those hard winter months of my worst carousals. He picked me off as his own and sported me me … Continue reading
Filed under Addiction, Alcoholism, Feral animals of the soul, Madness and Mania, Noir, Otherworlds, Sexuality, The Dark
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 Quest
space Sixth Letter to a Dead Shaman For half of my life Your quest flowed underground, its ends unknown to me, its means so upside-down, the way a fool inverts a king’s gold crown into a potty of mired sounds. … Continue reading
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
Filed under Alchemies, Art and Heart, Blue, Consciousness, Creativity, eye candy for thoth, Grails, Immrama, Madness and Mania, Memoir, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Rhetoric, Sexuality, Water-Folk
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
Filed under Alchemies, Art and Heart, Beauty Heals, Blue, Creativity, Culture, Devotions, Dream, eye candy for thoth, Gnosticism, Grails, Madness and Mania, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Post-Christianity, Quantum World, Shamanism, the library down under, Writing
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
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
