LESSONS IN SPELLCASTING

LESSONS IN SPELLCASTING, by Colleen Anderson

 

Vortex formed, sucked into the Abyss

Exited into a blizzard, ice biting like millions of insects

Created orb of all-seeing light

Reached a new understanding of Spellcasting

Tripped on stone before the Temple

Hand landed on hidden release

Door ground open, decay’s breath touched me

Stumbled down stairs into the obsidian crypt

Collapsed shivering before Taphumet’s bronze statue

Became a worshipper of Taphumet

Attained new stage of enlightenment

Formed vestments of warmth from stored grains in urns

Taphumet’s glacial hand caressed my heart

Offered knowledge of shock by Taphumet: accepted

Left the temple, trudged through the Abyss’s frozen delirium

Saw the vortex mouth opening

Return beckoning, sweet release

Noticed a polar bear

Noticed a polar b—

 

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Colleen Anderson has a BFA in writing and her poems have been published in such venues as Mirror Dance, Polu Texni, The Future Fire, HWA Poetry Showcase and others. She is a Canada Council and BC Arts Council grant recipient for writing and has performed her work before audiences in the US, UK and Canada. Colleen’s collection, I Dreamed a World, will be published in early 2021. Colleen has also published fiction including the collection A Body of Work, by Black Shuck Books.  Follow her at www.colleenanderson.wordpress.com.