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  • The Rope Is Kind

    Fail & hang, the rope is kindbut not the end you seek to findNo grave will keep your soul at restno coffin close your weary chest For death is but a crooked doora hinge that creaks, then swings once moreThe… Continue reading

    The Rope Is Kind
  • The Thought That Rots

    Cling not to thought: it blooms, then rotsA gilded chain in sacred knotsAs soon as mind begins to graspRelease the hold, unclench the clasp The prayer you whisper turns to rustIf built on dogma, fear, or lustIdeas are idols dressed… Continue reading

    The Thought That Rots
  • Sacred Fright

    In candlelit halls where saints weepWe build our gods on power’s keepsWith iron will & crowned commandWe crush roses with trembling hands But Love, she waits in chapel dustNot in the sword, but in the trustNot in the grasp, but… Continue reading

    Sacred Fright
  • The Last Bloom

    The roses had withered long before she did. Elaine lay atop the crimson velvet of her ancestral bed, each breath a brittle offering to the air. Shadows licked the walls, and somewhere beneath the floorboards, something stirred and sighed. The… Continue reading

    The Last Bloom
  • Each Second is a Universe

    A breath in stillnessa whole world begins to bloomthen fades into peace The ticking is softbut inside each quiet beata cosmos unfolds Time is not movingit opens like a flowerpetal by petal Even now it singsthe sacred in each momenta… Continue reading

    Each Second is a Universe
  • Litany for the Devouring Saints

    Praise the roads of dirt & drowningWinding through the marrow’s prayerPraise the earth that drinks our hungerPraise the sea that drowns despair Praise the eater, the mouth of heavenAnd the eaten, bone & breadPraise the lamb & praise the slaughterPraise… Continue reading

    Litany for the Devouring Saints
  • She Who Sings Him Still

    My song shall not sound cold to himNo, it shall burn through the fog of the moorA darkened chain drawn tight with hymnTo pull him where the black tides pour In my deep wave, he’ll find your hairTangling in seaweed,… Continue reading

    She Who Sings Him Still
  • Litany of the Crooked Hands

    I start shouting with my handsbut my fingers are bentlike thorns twisted in a crownno saint ever meant Once, they held the holy breadlifted chalice toward the sunnow they clutch at vanished veilsand pray to be undone I tried to… Continue reading

    Litany of the Crooked Hands
  • The Ropes Before the Grave

    Hope for truth while warm blood still singsNot when your bones wear funeral ringsLeap—leap now—into the fire of nightWhile the moon still casts your name in light Salvation’s not for the tomb or bellIt blooms before the final knellWhat you… Continue reading

    The Ropes Before the Grave
  • The Way of Freedom

    Do not seek freedom as a placesome distant heaven paved in stillnessa throne where pain cannot kneel Freedom is not a gate you reachbut a river you become It is not the absence of stormbut the grace to walk barefoot… Continue reading

    The Way of Freedom