Wednesday, August 10, 2022

It is not uncommon for survivors of abuse to favor the peripatetic.

Do they find peace in roaming the world? 

Are they freed physically from the weight and entanglement of site-specific memory?

 

I am fascinated by stones, their geologic nightmares and dreams.

I imagine streams of stones, also survivors, flushed from melting glaciers.

 

Where are they now, those souls, those stones?

 

Erratic behaviors.

 

Clocha an fhile

poet's stones

 

Damaged souls seek each other,

build refuges 

in stony rooks and nooks. 

 

Their rock-worn poems?

 

In runes.