Hestia alight,candle's wick an arteryanchoring these prayersbeyond the raging ocean,its form embering hollowlike slow-cooked stew meatwhose veins once pumped a cow's blood.Feeding life through fleeting life:each, devoured, transforms.
Well-Written Literature
Any well-written piece of literature can be compared to a living being; if, then, the dialogue is comparable to a living being, and a living being has only one purpose, the Good (for the sake of which it has been created), the dialogue must also have one purpose, that is, one theme.Anonymous Prolegomena to Platonic … Continue reading Well-Written Literature
Ending 2020 — Pangrammatike
I just posted a 2020 Year in Review to my writing blog, and you're welcome to check it out if you want to read about creative things that extend beyond the scope of this blog. Link below. 2020 was a year. I went into it with several creative goals, and this blog post will serve … Continue reading Ending 2020 — Pangrammatike
A Thousand Years Hence
what if I told youthat the stones you smashedwere your own gleaming bones that the rocky marrowwas the quickening of lifethe antidote to fever that the muscles of ritesstill lay quivering, recoverablebut would rot nearly traceless that the flesh of mythyou decided to skin, to dry,to schism into the ground did not look that waywhen … Continue reading A Thousand Years Hence
The Future Is More Than Us
Sometimes, I fantasize about people who are utterly unlike myself being able to draw from their religious practices in ways that are unremarkable, not avant-garde. I think about the kids of polytheists today two decades from now waking up for a day of work and praying at a wall shelf shrine held up with command … Continue reading The Future Is More Than Us
A January Morning
As the sky pales amber and pink,winter cold against windows,the horizon hungers. Soon, hovering —the faintest brush of burning day.I stretch up, unfurling in asana,sun shimmering joyous above rooftops,my eyes closed, heavy with light,a gift for Sunna, Sulis, and Helios —this rhythm, alive with blessings,my breath a channel chasing luminescence,a triad finishing in watchful stillness,the … Continue reading A January Morning
A Few Books on Divination and Oracles
I have been practicing moderation by not acquiring Nicola Spanu's Proclus and the Chaldean Oracles: A Study on Proclean Exegesis, with a Translation and Commentary of Proclus’ Treatise On Chaldean Philosophy because my TBR is already very long, and I know that the chances of me getting to it this year are slim given my … Continue reading A Few Books on Divination and Oracles
January 2021 “We Are Individuals in Communities” Divination
In 2020, due to feeling a lot of social burnout, pessimism, and pain about our wider polytheistic communities, I started doing a divination reading every three months about the polytheistic communit[y/ies]. The point of this divination, like most divinations I do, is to highlight growth areas that we may be missing that prevent us from … Continue reading January 2021 “We Are Individuals in Communities” Divination
Yggdrasil, or the World Tree, and White Supremacist Appropriation
In my family's group text on Thursday, my midsis wrote these motherf—ers below an image she shared from Wednesday's white supremacist mob storming of the Capitol. She had circled the QShaman guy, who was bare-chested with tattoos of several Asatru/Heathen symbols that are now being called white supremacist symbols. Because she and I are learning … Continue reading Yggdrasil, or the World Tree, and White Supremacist Appropriation
