rune carver riven (2017)

stone carver stag gored on moss driven floors
his monument unfinished

in a glacial mortal blink
fen sunk bog borrowed

anchored in egyptian

gold braided tokens
the stag adamant

stomping clay skinned bipedal form
rutting good ground soddy in sacrifice

woden won't mind

but
owe hrafnblot under three mantles

carried four ways under one vine
god odin godan goghs to gouda

fur goods dogs blood
chiseled in antler his chest demolished

with thunder crack oak smitten fury
one narrow eye

losing the canopy

life liquidates light
prisms primordial chip crystal runes

to gotland telling mother
bird clergy quicksilver mercy

arrows flit father our craft has sunk dead
roaring rotten slugs easy go working with raccoons lynx and rat fleshnixxing
and raven gets them later

to mend all nine colors five fires seven warchants
roosting doom dragon night owls creating math
number tone peace bread

hearth son splintering shaft of fate gnarling last
thing driven into slab rock

upstood by twelve with mighty hemp ropes
an antler or root or river or sorrow or ravine

thronged in wolves foreign
teeth clouds open the stag moves stage left
snails and bluejays quibble

over liver politics

peer pressure. not woden.

5--23-17 Portland, Or