Category Archives: The Dark
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 Dazzling Dark
space If it blazes, it has worth. — Rilke Old certainties never die, just fall to lower ones. Below our knowledge a dark truth teems in ghostlike reams, deep waves of lost myths and wild dreams, souls that dart and … Continue reading
Filed under Art and Heart, Blue, Grails, Immrama, Oran, Otherworlds, Post-Christianity, The Dark, The Sea, Voyagers, Writing
Camera Obscura
space Why is it that cameras are forbidden in dreams? At least, that’s the word I’ve gotten for two nights straight, first when I wanted to take a picture of my wife sleeping bathed in early light from the sun’s … Continue reading
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
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
Filed under Archetypal Mythology, Art and Heart, Blue, Celestial events, Cognitive Science, Consciousness, Creativity, Culture, Devotions, Feral animals of the soul, Folklore, Forest Shenanagans, Mind, Mystery, Myth and Archetype, Natural Supernatural, Nature, Noir, Oran, Otherworlds, Poetry, Quantum World, Sexuality, Shamanism, Spirituality, The Dark
