Author: Beth Maiden
the shame doll
i touch the mountain
or, devotion will ask difficult things of you. devotion means they are worth doing. November retreat 23/new year 24
mugwort
do not underestimate
the space i will claim.
the angry high priestess
women throwing things into fires
on any given night
whether the moon be bright
and fat
or a shadow of herself
1. All that you touch, you change
2. without positive obsession there is nothing at all
6. Intelligence
25. Cast on new ground
28. changes
29. The rest of what we need
39. kindness eases change
57. self is
65. there is nothing alien about nature
66. earthseed is adulthood
bone stories
oh, i could tell it so many ways.
new year (2023)
i'm here. i have not moved yet. i am afraid to.
a head start
i breathed
with him barely
sipping the pale air
untitled
it is the day the spiders hatched.
my house will have no sign
you will not find it by name or number.
being with things
geese
the landing
branta came that night. paddled right up beside her in a tree-trunk canoe, offering a name.
the boat
on windy days the sea-wives would be busy with the boats.
the sea-wives
«mother doesn’t give a shit.»
the port
the woman brushed the wet sand from her dress. the pair walked on in silence