Potamomancy
Meander Fiadhiglas

 

 

Milky Way. Meteors. Socorro recalled.

Memory and Matter.

Sarasvati ~ river & goddess of art, literature.

 

Cottonwoods.

Ereshkigal encounters Inanna.

Red spiderweb.

 

Destiny glimmers through the trees.

Peacock seeps. Pools appear.

Spills.

 

A season of drought.

Change, movement, meta–

Replenishing the process of storytelling.

 

Egg, old name offered. Be a river.

Enter a void . . . of the unwritten.

Wander the red beyond.

 

Divine Child. Trickster. Shadow.

Chthonic dream.

The river of time.

 

“Alive” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . “Present”

 

Flowing water.

Rivers I have loved.

Flowers, seeds, leaves. Paper, words. Balancing.

 

Clarity. Candor. Deftness appears.

Shoes removed among reeds.

Clay goddesses. Primordial egg.

 

Slither, swim.

Wading washes away who I was.

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Meander Fiadhiglas is an autistic, disabled person of nonbinary gender who photographs flowers, fungi, and spiders. She geeks out over USGS Hydrologic Unit Codes, and hopes to write about every watershed in her home HUC Region of 02, the Mid-Atlantic. She lives in northern Baltimore county, Maryland, with her partner and plants. Her poetry blog is meanderw.wordpress.com; she’s on Twitter at @wildwonderweb.