can you hear Gaia sigh as she shakes out her hair and prepares for winter’s nap, shedding her last gaudy cloak in prolonged glory? her jeweled mantle floats to somnolence with the ease of long practice. she bares her breast – audacious – afore the cleansing of Boreas’ howls. do you catch the whisper of […]
Song for Autumn – Aurora Phoenix
I can taste the wild abandon crunch underfoot as I spin, tousle-headed glory on a wing and a whim. I careen, dizzy-drunk, and sprawl – the poster child for breathless exuberance. “Bury me!” is the shriek – perennial as the palette – as I wriggle and giggle amongst the golds. My mane, titian in crumbled […]
Fall, Leaves, Fall – Aurora Phoenix
crimson had not yet bloomed crisp-splattered across vistas strewn autumnal breeze hinted chill at pre-dawn calamity winds gusting hard to ill gale capsized her all wave on wave, apoplectic deadened browns crest fall shame, scarlet blaze faded in season’s wither wanders lost daze now accidental tourist forlorn, scorned, windshorn in her own – foreign – […]
Accidental Tourist – Aurora Phoenix
Sanhaim do leaves mourn their neighbors as passions flame out? pine o’er skeletal plummet scarlet breathes last to rust crumbled to prickly dust or do they celebrate leafy passings? dance a fluttering jig as they scuttle limb flutter earthward fancy meet crunching destiny I hear matrilineal whispers rising amongst wooded footfalls each rustle communes ‘twixt my soul and revenants’ do autumnal spirits howl as harvest shrivels to husks? bay as mooning coyotes writhe anguished in fields barren, stripped of yield or mark they these endings in ecstatic ululations? cavort, wild and free circle ends with begins lament not the cyclic spin my foremothers caress hollows of my provenance brisk autumn breezing ‘tween now and yesteryears
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