Black feathers braided in golden hair
She tilts her face
To the Holy Rose Pink Sky
The shine on her cheeks
tears of pearls carry all that she seeks
Oh heavenly powers above!
Oh Mother Moons in all your phases!
Pull on the tides of my blood
I let myself be drawn into the darkness,
The river beneath the river
within my soul
running wild,
the cosmic undercurrent
winding, wading and waxing
My bones of mud and stardust
My womb of magic and mystery
Oh! Black feathered Sister of the Sky
Spiral alongside
down
down
down as we fly
To hear what is not spoken
To see what lays in the darkness
To give love to what is broken
Oh! Black feather sister of the Sky
Ancient ancestor of this Land
Glide with me
Dive with me
Through galaxies of unchartered stars
Into the charred hollow of the tree
The Raven Hole
The Open Wound
Where joy and sorrow
are cocooned
She knows the way down
She knows the way of return
She flies and
She Calls
The lost pieces of Herself back Home
Her rosen,
risen
blooming heart, so rare
Black feathers braided in her golden hair
Black feathers braided in her golden hair
Dreamed through, and inspired by the journeyer and shepardess, dearest Sister Ali
Yule 2023
