the wild hunt, selene, norn, nemesis spake, semele, ixion, celebe,

the wild hunt 



fohn wind hard licks the wild hunt erupting

vultures drop, motionless, shadows disrupting

   moonlit groves, armies of faries

   thrashing acorns as tornadoes carry us



down stark roads over homes wrongful built,

for hearth-fires wodan keeps, unwise wood split

   undoing the road and what's come before

   and that which was known, once before sworn



dandy dogs hunting, stay on your steed

to touch ground when godan hunts; ashes guaranteed,

   our tender feet march not that fohn wind,

   rises hot focus up mountains sharp grin



   cutting god's ice beard, the spray off blood hooves;

   red roaming ghost kings, all sensible move

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          selene     





Selene drives her moon chariot wanton wise

pulling men-hearts out to later feed mice

   above green earth her palace so pale

   from craters her whims all mortals regale



moonstruck by proxy, the wine in our glasses

moondrunk the chipmunk, evading owl passes,

   Selene never parks her orb spinning high

   without clouds for hitch-posts cloistered nigh



formed of Phoebe, or maybe old Theia

fished in by gravity, mystery, the moon sees us;

   silhouette of substances similar, serene

   man is kind love until shown his own spleen



shining her trademark, all night she delivers

rolling foul heavens, arming cupid's deft quivers

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              norn     





Swans from swain broods emerge to the Norns

who thread twine, riverine, alluvial born;

   fates tend to puddle, well-tree over-ridden;

  the Norns sort us out, trophy in the midden



a root runs true or turns false no less,

carries our water, the ash of success

   the limbs roost above our imperiled crowns

   widow-maker swooping, silently browned



no fish to swan stalking, mirror calm lake,

no leaf left untasted, the hart there to take

   no dirt clod molested, the serpent true hiss

   there in Norn's weaving wand's illustriousness



   noblest of trees, well watered abides

   ribs crack oak coal, heat presides

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          nemesis spake     





Finally Nemesis spake, her truth a rake,

clawing man's crime piles he takes/takes

   for granted, till spark make bonfire;

   good, party ----get a marshmallow, dear



said Nemesis, whittling weeping willow

switches, laying castor&pollux egg on a pillow;

   mother of helen, cause of collection,

   armies assembled to die, perfection;



ceo, senator,  jocular newsguy, trump:

Watch for a chariot of griffins Clumped

   Yer frivolous Insolence and heads i remove

   Shrieked Nemesis      (her army approved)



daughter of  Ocean, her dagger primeval,

dim man-blood meet Nemesis, measured arch rival

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       semele       





bathing in the river, Semele took note yon eagle

bloody from blots to zeus, his attentions "regal"

   Semele demanded the god in full glory,

   thus reduced by thunderbolt, an immortal story;



from fires sprung son dio, wine god of frenzy

born to soothe  time and man, needing ectasy

   a phoenix not ready, zeus sewed in his thigh:

   dionysus, with river nymphs, and mystis, resides



raised in sheer mountains, with panthers, his wine,

wand tipped with spine-bone,             honey of pine

   mead's golden warm fuel        fires the dance

   epiphany blooms               in orgy perchance



  twice born, the grape low:

  wine risen, man knows:

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         ixion     



The centaur bow aflame in absolute fire,

breath cloud via spectograph no liar,

  primordial booze of all make and kind

  ethanol, vinyl,...no wonder centaur's blind



a black hole of methane, tongueless profane,

formaldehyde crib has all life to gain

  loaning out a cosmos to spare

  a rib boomerrang returns for its share



half man-horse,  his core brighter by far,

hera dumbly his target, zeus fixed Ix with tar,

   spinning eternal from fucking that cloud

   (in hearts distillation, purely not allowed)



  big bang banished, moby dick subsumed,

  punished with powers all self-consumed

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         cebele     





Say you know them sibyls of the sistine chapel;

you know the core, seed,        and bite of apple

   do you know that great Magna Mater,

   great mother, mountain planter,



Cybele seven thousand year worshipped,

iron from stars, her magnet, perfect

   cured incorrigible dionysus, raving

   grounded the grove and hearthstone, paving



altars blood worshiped, don't sneer now you mortal;

your fridge full of prophecy, awaiting, a portal;

   styrofoam chapel, all lined with the saints,

   st. bacon, st. whipped cream, st. plastic and paint



   moshing foot grinding the feet grapes undressing

   came first mothers music, mystery, sense blessings





Mt Tabor, Portland, Oregon

Jan 2, 2018