Category: Poetry

 Card for the 23rd: The Queen of Pentacles reversed Card for the 24th: 5 of cups Snow fall in western Maryland on this eve of Christmas. I take Losi out first thing in the gray-blue light of late winter dawn and she bounds through the freshly fallen snow. I wonder at her wonder, how most… Read more

 The Eight of Swords reversed: a revelation, however small A woman stands with arms bound and eyes covered. She’s in a pretty helpless position, emphasized by the seeming jail of swords keeping her trapped on this island of emotional turmoil she stands upon. Water lies dark all around her, reflecting a dark sky. If upright… Read more

 Card of the day: Four of Pentacles In this season of coming and going,  I keep alive by holding still. Guard your stillness and your quiet as the man in the Four of Pentacles guards coins.  Today is the day of most coming and most going: The dark has come, the light gone, and in… Read more

 Tarot card of the day: Nine of Cups Today, on the day before darkest day, in this midwinter season, I want to think about contentment in absence. John O’Donohue meditates a great deal on absence in Eternal Echoes. He says it is sisters with presence: “the opposite of presence is not absence, but vacancy; where… Read more

 Today’s Tarot card: Ten of Swords reversed (a second time) (photo from Oak and Grist Distilling Co. before the Dark City Poets Society open mic) A poem for today’s card:  Pulmonarius mushrooms colonize a tree,  actively break it down, transform it.  Which, to a point, is like breath.  Is that what transformation is,  feathers of… Read more

 Five of pentacles reversed In the Five of Pentacles, a man and woman stumble through a snow storm in tattered clothes. The man hobbles with a staff and the two lean into each other. Behind them dark winter trees stand naked in the night. But they are near a church that offers warmth and respite.… Read more

Card of the day: The World reversed  In this time of waiting for new light, I keep asking myself: what really are we waiting for? And The World reversed image suggests to me to reevaluate this narrative. The story in The World is, in a sense, what to wait for: the beginning that is intrinsically… Read more

 Tarot card of the day: 7 of swords (picture I took of a holy well near the Hill of Tara in Ireland) Has a fairy stolen into your camp? Convinced you to come with him, to dance and sing, to help you obliterate your sense of lack or to let you indulge in “not enoughness”?… Read more