#sibling project

Blindly, I embed each razored word I speak, like dormant seeds, into the surrounding ground.  Then wait, without surprise, for the vindictive vines to snake along my legs and spine stripping flesh from bone, like butchers applying their keen knives to the unvoiced tendons of the dead; until I wail long ululations of despair to the wind, as if my coy innocence had not vanished like breath into the icy air’s silence with the first soft words I spoke to you.

I reposted all of the Major Arcana,  for which my sister has completed her illustrations. She is still working on The Star, Judgement, and the World. 

(This is from a series called “Arcana.” It is a joint poetry/ visual art project based on the tarot pack. I have written a poem connected to each of the cards of the tarot deck. My sister, Firethorn Studio, is illustrating at least the 22 major arcana.

19: Now You Know

 Who stares at the sun?

Such clarity permeates

all darkness:  My eyes!

 ( November17, 2013)

11:  with all equanimity

 as if any given can be divined

as to its true justification

yes no yes no yes separated until

the true binary collapses to one

which is squarely seen to be no

more than what is said to be

stripped clean of any tacit

obligations to more than now

without causality’s shades clouding

stark judgment’s clear sight

as she lays her lidless eyes upon my life

then turns upon the detritus

to make similar claims upon it all

 (November 10, 2013)

9: In Solitude I Walk

 I move within the tatters

of the world knitting

frantically alone beneath

a fractured light:

a candle allows

a small comfort

against the dark,

blinding its aura

along night’s edge

like beads of blood

across a knife’s blade.

  (November 8, 2013)

4: Draw a Line

Just as you can only see your face’s reflection,

Only you know what you know and do within.

What aspect are you willing to show?

What part of you will you risk

To save the part of you that’s you?

Can you still find the line to protect

The border of what you call home?

Or can you further sub-divide your soul,

Until there’s nothing left of you at all?

(November 5, 2013)