effective priests of the natural worlds contruct magic and ceremony anywhere and need no trinkets or charms. they have commited to memory the names and uses of the plants, sacred songs and chants…

  sunrise-Lady’s Mantel, it’s been a long timesince i’ve seen youDew HolderEarly Onethank you for this visionthank you for this medicine midnight-i can’t tell you how it is herehow it even showed itselfbut it…

  still in the lower worldof caves and hollowsswitchbacks under the roots of the belladonnahere, a lossand i reach for youthat loon answers from the riverapproach of wintershe shows her slender white handi can see…

Image Takato Yamoto I’m just a common woman. No healer, holy one, priest, medicine this or that, specializing in whatev. I’m same same as the rocks, trees, mud, air etc. Being born human and…

    in the city of priests and healers a clouding fireengulfed my housei stood in the middle of it alone with a hosei now live in the camp of beggars and thievessurrounded by love and…

chapter 17, when you burn your garbage the people i might need to tellare far and awaythis is how you can reach themin the night, morning reallybetween 2 and 4amsshh be silenttake into account…

  (Prayer at Devil’s Gulch for the Disremembered)  tonight dogs worry their chains she can still smell the raw cold steel of the gun barrel the cherry grip handle, crosshatched, well oiled tonight she…

he enters her thoughts makes her whisper calls him by his true name remembering thunder too much c’est trop like the scent of seashells and spiknard  combined with woodsmoke and whisky a howl, heaving …

here the grass shakes and hissesa song there, a rememberingsmall lynx is a wave in the meadowyou’ll miss her me if you’re not lookingi turn from the uglythat precedes some peoplewave them on. keep…