The Bone Collector

Love, is earthed in these ways:

the burial of bones

the planting of seeds

the raising of a child

And here, everything has

a beginning and an end.

Here, skin incarnates skin

and disembodies spirit

we make the myths

and birth the gods

to suckle like infants at the

teat of longing and despair.

Human are the myths we weave,

out of bone and out of blood.

(from the upcoming publication ‘The Mortal Coil’ 2022)