#brigid

𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐁𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐝

𝘨𝘰𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘦, 𝘱𝘰𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘺, 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩, 𝘤𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘪𝘵𝘺,

Will be working on the next set 🫡

brigid — celtic goddess of healing, smithing, poetry, fertility, divination, fire and water.

brigid bless this hearth and home, keep us safe from harm. no matter how far we might roam, guide us safe and sound. heal me with your sacred water, shield me with your flame. your love is my sword and shield and so it shall remain.

Brigid’s Forge

The light changes at a liminal hour in another time zone.

Brigid, goddess with a healer's face, watches from her mural over sparse traffic

as a woman crosses, her bare hands stained purple.

If you savoured me like a ripe fruit –

a blackberry, fresh-picked from among protective thorns –

the aftertaste would alter your voice

the way brambles change the mountainside;

the way crude metal is changed by flame.

Something shifts when you think in one another’s phrases.

Shared tongue, shared rhythms, shared care –

before dawn, vivid colour

trickles, like a tart burst of juice, into your greyscale dream –