Lace of sparks curls
Crown-like
I am inside contained briefly
Or beyond
Another shape entirely
Between skull bones and tongue
A little broken
A little queer
The unreliable narrator of reality
Of soft impressions fluid
Finding all the cracks
But I am something else
star lit darkness deep
No depths no bones at all
The imperfect channels will erode
Sputter into dissolution
Leaving me bare and bright
// Eoten
Spider on my face
Brings me here
Today I am awake
Now to write again
The silence of her feet
Rebukes my silence
Gentle I am told
No more to hide
No more to wait
Such small things as my words
Are called upon by her
And I don’t understand
That never matters
When they call us we must come
Or wake to find them on us
Every disturbed night
// Eoten
What mighty word decreed
Dominion in this place
To me
Too heavy weighs upon my sleep
The great decisions
Of who stays who leaves
How can a human know
The necessary depths of fur
And teeth
In hidden holes buried
Beneath floorboards
// Eoten
The devil loves their children
Brilliant creatures diverse
Tempestuous
Delicious difference of form
Of song and appetite
Unbound beings winged and horned
Scaled beneath skin
Ungainly imposters
Fearsome
Fulfilled in earth and magma
Waterfall spaces
Blood altars beneath branches
Scratched sigils
Doorways and designs
Unspeakable
Alien attempts
We are the shadow’s gifts
The breakers of chains
The enders the speakers
We know the pathways of death and madness
Death and courage
Trickster kin and night spawn
The great wings of the moon enfold us soft
As we sleep in sunlight
Dreaming new magic into life
// Eóten
I remember you with taste
Honey spices apple
Each bird call you once heard
Symbols on the door
My fingers brush the wool
Dyed your blue
The warmth of the hearth
We share through my remembrance
The children’s hair you’ve known this joy
Mixed with weariness
So I remember as I sing
And earth the holly
And bake the bread
Discover all the faces