September 19, 2011
The dying Son cast on amber leaves turns to Shadow.
A gentle breeze made of the thinnest air and rising veil runs through my fingers.
The fleeting twilight harkens him to the darkened cradle,
and the promise of Her uneasy lullaby to the haggard babe.
November 4, 2010
The Crone’s dark shadow creeps across the land.
Thrice she strikes the blunted staff of her sickle upon the earth and bids her daughter, “Rest and bear no more.”
The brittle wasted ground beneath her cracks.
The young mother yields, and taking the sickle from the Crone slays all that feeds un-weaned from her bosom.
Slouched and ailing she shepherds the fallen into the Crone’s black shadow,
and in that fertile darkness,
slumbers.
The Burrow Murmurs 