Love In the Silence
While the storm gathers, the world waits. Wind rises and falls like the breath of the cosmos. The mountain turns blue, not with cold but with the shadow of low-hanging […]
Sunflowers
A stand of dead sunflowers Is an early bluebird’s throne. All content copyright Aji Wings, 2018; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may be used […]
Conjurer
Bringer of the sun become consort of the snow, Conjurer of worlds out of a cauldron made of wood. All content copyright Aji […]
The Mystery
It is The Invisible, the land where the spirits dwell. We live at the feet of the place where life begins and ends. On some mornings, the clouds show you […]
Seven Years
Seven years ago I left in winter Came home in spring And the land was scalped. Raw, Bare skin, dermal cells now dust blowing in gale-force winds. No grama, no […]
Above the Waterline
Come up for air Head held high Swim above the waterline Survive All content copyright Aji Wings, 2018; all rights reserved. Nothing herein may be […]
Thaw
Melted ice, light, heart, memory. Going home again, in the twilit waters of the thaw. All content copyright Aji Wings, 2018; all rights reserved. Nothing herein […]
Clouds, Not Waves
This is what happens when others presume to speak for us: What gets presented as “fact” is flatly wrong. What did they expect from a land-locked high desert world? They’re […]
Old
We are conditioned to think of age as a negative. It’s not merely a bad thing-in-itself; it’s the not-thing. Not-young is not-manly, not-womanly, not-peak, not-prime. Even as adulthood gets further […]
Formation
Light and shadow. Gate and fence; barrier and portal. Tears wept by the trees; blood drawn by the thorns of the barbed-wire fence. While I worked this afternoon, I listened […]