Mount Helena in Winter

snow falling
through lodgepole pines
beautiful white

Poem for Brigid

Oh, sweet Brigid, sing in my breast
Of light and love's warm sun rays.
'Tis time we laid old maid Winter to rest
And made room for your warmer days.

Oh, sweet Brigid, weave me a spell,
That will brighten the cloud-dreary skies.
Bring my heart water from your sacred well
Fill my ears with sounds of new-born cries.

Oh, sweet Brigid, light me a fire
Cast your light that will drive out all dark.
Kindle my soul and my spirit entire
With the song of the Robin and Meadowlark.

We've waited long nights for your sweet return,
Sweet Brigid, sweet Brigid, for you we have yearned!
Yes, we've waited long nights for your sweet return,
Sweet Brigid, sweet Brigid, for you we have yearned!

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Friendly Advice

Peace does not in sadness live,
Nor in a heavy heart can Love reside,
For only unrest can a sadness give,
And a heavy heart cannot open wide.

Go you then, and live in Joy,
And let your Joy a beacon be.
Look you for light in many things,
And in many things a light you'll see.

Know what is come is soon to pass,
So take now time to treasure this,
This grain of sand in the hourglass,
Oh what a shame it would be for you to miss!

See how it sparkles and it glitters so,
In one brief moment's quick descent,
Giving its all for this one show,
And this one show for you was meant.

So perk your ears and watch you close,
And love each moment's brief display,
And feel you things and sniff your nose,
You can fill your life with Love this way.

I tell you this because I Love you so,
And it hurts my heart to hear you cry.
There are so many things I would have you know,
Like your heart is a bird, if you let it fly.

I'll put the key in the latch, but it's yours to turn.
So turn it, turn it! That bird has wings!
It needs open sky if it is to learn,
To fly, to soar...to perch on things.

But with your worries you've built a cage,
And each day a layer to the walls you add,
And when you grow cramped you moan and rage,
And claim that the world has made you sad.

But I know a secret that you have forgot,
And this cage that you've built, I can help you unlock it.
Listen, you're searching for something you've got,
And the key to this cage, you'll find in your pocket.

Love is the key and the sky and your wings
And life a gift not made to last.
So hurry, go now, Love you many things,
For today's tomorrow will soon be past.

So let now Peace in Happiness live,
And let now Love in our hearts reside,
And happy Love let us receive and give,
And let our hearts be open wide.

For Peace is treasure that will not rust,
And Love the only truth we can always trust.

Waiting

Sometimes I am patient as Death,
or Earth
awaiting the return of all things.
Other times impatience wells
and I am kin to fruitflies, anxious to procreate
and pass on.
So often I feel that I am,
and have,
and can do, nothing.
And this pleases me and makes me
think of you

Keeping Time

I could spend the whole night

getting back to my stone-chipping roots
hand and skin where flint and obsidian
once hid.

The slap is sharp

but makes nothing,
slices nothing, and I sweat but for
quivering air, and no animal falls lifeless to feed
the beloved community.

Quivering air and a tapping foot,

a song to lift the melancholy
and time to keep it all in place. The children grow, they turn away
and back and have children of their own and get old and die.

Our flint-knapping marks the rhythm of their passing,

we leave only flakes and arrowheads to mark our time
and quivering air in a rhythm that always is,
even when we have ceased from playing it.

How to make a sacrifice to MOLOCH

1. Prepare an alter to MOLOCH.

The alter should consist of a television tuned to Fox News with the volume muted (sacrifices made during Bill O’Reilly’s show are especially effacious). On top of the alter you should place one black candle representing the ABYSS OF ETERNAL CONSUMPTION, and one red candle representing THE NECTAR OF COLLATERAL DAMAGE.

2. Stake the SACRIFIAL BEAST next to the alter.

Appropriate selection of the SACRIFICIAL BEAST is of the utmost importance. Either a black female goat in estrus or the un-baptized baby of a Christian family are to be prefered. If circumstances do not allow you to obtain either of the above, a common house cat or elderly neighbor may be substituted.

3. Cast a protective circle of dead cockroaches around the alter.

Dead mice may also be used. If you are using cockroaches, poisoning is preferred to squishing, as squished cockroaches are messy and difficult to work with.

4. Light the black candle and recite aloud three times the first sacred mantra:

MOLOCH IS ONE AND KARL ROVE IS HIS APOSTLE

5. Light the red candle and recite aloud three times the second sacred mantra:

MAHU CHENEY MAHU MURDOCH MAHU COULTER MAHU BLAIR.

6. Cut the throat of the SACRIFICIAL BEAST.

Babies have a lot of fat around their necks, which can make it difficult to know if you have cut deep enough to sever the jugular vein. If you are using one for a SACRIFICIAL BEAST don’t take any chances: decapitate the motherfucker.

7. Write out a check for at least $200 to the REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE.

Write the boon you are seeking or the name of the person you want killed on the Note line. Remember, the bigger your check, the better the chance that MOLOCH will grant your request!

and a Happy New Year...

... and all the holidays/regular days we missed between now and six months ago.

Diptherio and I talked of picking things up again, so here I go.

I am spurred by how useful and entertaining I found the first 14 months of posts when I was reminiscing. I encourage perusal. Only 62 posts (plus comments), but some of them are good.

Actually useful isn't a fitting adjective for our posts. We have yet to post anything very instructive.

Anyway, it'd be good to hear from you again (especially you, Yum, as you have been particularly absent from regular communication channels).

If the posts teach me anything, it's that we do our best work when there is an assignment.

For our first return assignment lets create a how-to in words or pictures or both (it can be technical or abstract). If you don't know what you want to demonstrate, please choose from this short list:

• making and/or eating a sandwich
• answering a knocked door/rung doorbell
• cheating at scrabble
• rubbing your eyes so hard you see stars
• faking out
• overstaying your welcome
• folding a poker hand

These are just suggestions. I'm not even sure I'll choose one of them, but we'll see.