Today the village marched to the war memorial, accompanied by brass band; the standards were lowered, the names of the glorious dead were read, the Last Post was played.
Plagiarism; I wish I could claim to have written this:
I say the names of my deities,
I feel the drop of each sound into silence that glistens in the coming dark.
In the deep spaces of my birth and dying, my soul-song sings, midnight of the newborn sun.
She wears away the boundaries of my skin, seeping in to claim me for the flux of Spirit
Mother of all our naming
I open the door, and the gods enter
The gods enter the dark interior of my being
The breeze comes, the breeze that sews the worlds together.













