Ogham poem: Ebad/Salmon

Arise from your languor, from the inviting couch, your limbs scattered heedless, petals on water. Come now instead to the water in truth and more than truth, reed-ringed, midges dancing …

Geilta

It is not a wonder that a woman flies upon the air and eats men with claws or a man grows feathers upon his flesh and runs so lightly upon …

Ogham poem: Idad/The Yew Tree

Crumple the paper and start again. Every story has been told countless times. There are words so ancient we no longer know their meaning. Older than letters, older than even …

Ogham poem: Edad/Amanita

See, see, discern the tree that flowers in your crown and roots in your head the dose is the poison, you said Can you distinguish leaf from trunk from the …

Sulis

Pushing up from that crack in the clay the slap of the weeds in the current against the ankles, catching then free slow, so slow and the light above the …

Vila

You run your fingers through the thatch, searching for the sealskin. Flip the mattress hoping your swan wings are hidden below. Your back aches with the place they once were, …

Useful fire

So you seal the door from the tempest of insult, the tumult of relation — turn the deadbolt, curl up with a book and consign a world to shadows, dimmed …