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Learning to Ride
When you realize you can’t stop There are slides pirouettes turns that can stop the flow but not the motion The wind fingering through hair wicking…
Jack Beltane
Mar 26
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The Beach
At night I see ripples on the ceiling Silent waves rolling over a silent beach A streetlight through blinds that could be something else but my mind…
Jack Beltane
Mar 18
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Early Winter
The white glow of sunlight through gray clouds through trees The leafless branches are fingers of hope holding drops of rain like rings A soft wind and…
Jack Beltane
Mar 11
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February 2023
Scry A Wind We Cannot See
All the darkest hours All the strangest days All the shadows playing in all the sullen ways We take these bones this dish these ashes We scry the…
Jack Beltane
Feb 19
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Tapping the Well
There was once a pattern to everything scribing something beautiful in my mind— in the darkness something looking for light to make shadows so that…
Jack Beltane
Feb 12
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Something
That she bends time to her will is no disguise When she moves, time stops cold I have seen eyes as deep as hers only in dreams where lavender tucks the…
Jack Beltane
Feb 4
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January 2023
Stop
When the living takes the magic When the wind swallows the storm When the fire dies in the twilight and I stop And the sky seems open wide to me— a…
Jack Beltane
Jan 29
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Dogs' Teeth
We keep sharp thing around us like dogs’ teeth set in firm jaws and minds of their own We keep prisoners in the silence they have found as refuge from…
Jack Beltane
Jan 21
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A Dark Turn In Mind
I have a dark turn in mind I have a shovel and an acorn I'm going to bury Don't try to stop me, Lord Don't try to burn my house down Because I'm coming…
Jack Beltane
Jan 16
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Meanwhile, Mazamette
The dust and age of a century blurring young pale faces with wide eyes— all heavy colors and black suits black dresses black costumes black lips black…
Jack Beltane
Jan 7
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December 2022
Is Gone
People want to see the sky Crane necks for a better view of the wide open blue Heavy rains give the world a gray lid We want to push on it, move it away…
Jack Beltane
Dec 18, 2022
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Leaving the Body Behind
This cannot be forever This cannot be the long night's turn into some final sunlight like a dream I'm living in The three-minute line is as wide as the…
Jack Beltane
Dec 11, 2022
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