easter water

easter water

‘Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing …’
From the work ‘Deutsche Mythologie’ 1835 by Jacob Grimm as quoted at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%92ostre

they say
water drawn on
easter morning
like that at
Christmas dawning
shall be ‘holy
and healing’
so saying
set me in
reverie
that in
that balm the
fish the eels
of the deep
shall too be ‘holy
and healing’
the foam touched

comings and goings

comings and goings

first thought
full-tide
took days
to return
knew later
it was a
moon thing
could sneak up
on you that
same very
day again
later knew
you could set
your dreaming
by it let

abandon

abandon

winter i am led
by the low sun
through shadows only
that will not leave
the root of the walls
the foot of the cypresses
in dust fallen a
season ago.

you were something
in that light
a warmth the
wind has taken back