somethingdarker: (Default)
[personal profile] somethingdarker
A boy with hands that tremble - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

In a courtyard slicked by rain and blood - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Tosses maple seeds in the air to spiral - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

But any memory of that has been crushed out of them - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

They lie and wait for time to grind them to dust - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

And hides from sharp knives in the night - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Red wells too deep to bring up tears - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Magpies dart around the castle's banners - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

He wonders if their ghosts remember him - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

If they have gone too far to recall their stolen lives - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Adding the dead, dividing the living, multiplying the sorrows - Jennifer Crow "Mathematics"

Broken by ice, smoothed by water and time - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

From the beds of dying streams - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

I call the gems from the necks of fair ladies - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The rich things stolen from the earth - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Unblinking in the sun of another day - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Cast down from heights to languish - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The pulse forgotten in the flow of stone - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Mountain ranges and great rifts that break the land - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Swallowing the veins of rivers - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

All these I encompass in my calling - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

All these I summon to rise up and bring fire - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

To dance creation on the fragile and the unmindful - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

The old gods shaking existence beneath my feet - Jennifer Crow "Summoning Stones"

Our ancestors watched it blossom - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Sweet cakes and honey and wine - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Lives left at the altar of knowledge - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Seduced by the memory of its birth - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Waited in the light of our thousand-flower sun - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

They broke a pitiless enemy - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Orbit our compass star - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Rain, forgotten between stars - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

We grieved like the shadow that gives birth to worlds - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

Fought with all the strength of poetry - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"

The sun devoured them, and they became the light - Jennifer Crow "Thousand Flower Sun"


Poet's bio at Strange Horizons.


Navigation Links:
Go to C author index.
Go to author indices.
Go to word indices.
Go to category indices.

Profile

somethingdarker: (Default)
somethingdarker

October 2022

S M T W T F S
      1
2345678
9101112131415
16 171819202122
23242526272829
3031     

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jan. 11th, 2026 04:38 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios