Friday, 10 April 2026

The Doctrine of Werewolves

Smoke from logs that will never burn through

Cannot hide a great sun-swallowing dog.

 

We are penumbra of ourselves

A cluster of prepositions

 

The horizon turns green turns red

Breaks in blue

We are the mountains and the marshes

That we inhabit

Losing the distance of skylines within ourselves,

Tightrope walkers

On the bamboo bridge above the snow

In a flurry of our paper wings

 

There are aerostatic miracles in us

And these things that have been

Will be.

 

A low-voltage moon,

Unplugged at the window,

Shines through our gauze shark skins

 

We concatenate across the abysses inside us

The anaerobic thinness

Of the borders we carry

Between here and the somewhere else

We also are

 

In high-altitude breathlessness

We find, we are,

The peg my skin was hanging on,

The animal fur as you changed back

To human form,

Gullet and womb,

Forgotten touch and lost breath,

We are the thawings of our being

 

We are periphenomena

At the sides of our own existence.

 

Tuesday, 20 January 2026

The Lost Gangways

Seed-stitched scars of braille
The contours of our own journeys
We are tumuli and burial mounds
Knot-embroidered onto silken maps
Filled with emptinesses of unexplored spaces
Where bodies froze in the unexpected ice drifts.
 
Automated navigators sneer with knowing all the ways
But in those gaps there were always monsters.
Trace their swimmings in tattoo welts
Feel the voids where we hold them still

Awaiting black water passage

In each new-opening lead.