blotgodi raven bowl

Down dropped said rainbow black bird 
wind-wand willed corn of the new world 

drooping off limb roost, the mountain lava 
cool beneath 
a kingpost more lonely for the company
surrounding nine daughters

easily scared into a knotnut
self planting wodan planted mind:

 "healing, death, royalty, the gallows, 
  knowledge, battle, sorcery, poetry, frenzy"

  Goði hrafnblóts, Goði of the Raven-offering"

  ravenous redbloodhaired 
           bloody hoofed steed of freyr
                                       Blóðughadda "  
                                                                               
bloggod his finger fires sent to nine twig-soul drenched 
hunted spiders
                born dust hungry for


felling planets
 on a droll tragic peck,

wavemaiden winds stirring flesh 
filled spy birds 

beyond speech
frothing pitching. bellowing.

cooling
an arm of ygdrassil rent sullen
with nerves,  oil stripped
jotuun woodpeckers 

no spring sprite
nor four stag defenses may temper 
if huggin or muinnin don't fetch

rainbow root bridge
                      a canal for stars to meander 
under navels of spring-cradles 

hidden if flowers 
yet dragon guarded
filled in feathered snakes 

of rills rushing uphill
                                                       silvered blue

trunk twigs trash woden chips feeding sun 
fire song under spells raven eyed close
haunting thickets 

each former strength
bearlike attended

heart of hammer mallet sound wind lightning spear
veins ripped farms burnt wells poisoned 
spoils dehumanized

seeds vaulted over bloodhooved boars
                      or cossacks with falcons
battle seeking shadow sinister

 eight legged ministers

wodan crushes village grave fury 
spilling human wine over oceans fierce

ancient gravity hurls godan along
                     dog god good blood fort forests
skald rib lungs riven 

drug over hideous 
razor rocked silence

unmasked in lacerated paint 
burnt wood oils flower dregs soil riches
elk fed well slept guarded by hounds

lions nine dragonmaids three chambers
good gold god bold blood bloomed 
quartered spring warriors

phlox or aster or ladylace or dartknee or falling giant

stone burrows fed
 naked in rain 
eleven ghost charms element chained

trance blotgodi priestess 
gallow cleansing nine arrows
                                         hurt sent

to track deemed demons
 donning broken tooth false hornet hate
ear pinched eye punched gut 

blasted ankle shattered
 lung twisted throat split
past opened 
                from greed hovels raven managed
 feasting on republics horrors
                   giant mounds
 godan odin wodan wooden
 eagles scratched time 
over night waters

 pegged tied in green leather
from feral stallions zeus drove once

before valleys of cohorts
before granite or feldspar or coal dripped
in olive oil merchant perfume

whale parts
 our doorframes
 planets cousins company 

pulling leviathons onto marble yet liquid 
in a storm birthing circle
*                           *                          *
a circle punctuated by the eye
                   of white willow's
sweeping charm

eight hundred miles wide drinking oceans flattening mountains

for meal is ground of bone beneath our thoughts,
a field of sky raised horses
 placid there in the hold of ships

rearing over waves mirrored 
in helm's raven watch

summoned of owl scat crushings star-sent 
wind was wand willed 
                       that no blot blood spilled





5-23-17 portland