THE WINGED MOON
STONES AND OBLIVION
Catherine Cullen
rock ledge
overlooking
a desert approach
bones burnt clean by the sun
washed by the wind
hardened by the night cold
a shepherd boy
collects dew from the peyotl
to incant a paste with
stones and oblivion
drawing in space
a perpendicular bridge
across the river of matted errors
ATAVISTIC
Zoe Davis
I river hands through you
stone
metamorphic
the kind birthed
from swollen volcanic wombs
you are an island
fresh born land gagging within a raging sea
black foamed beach hair
tousled by south-east wind
storm petrels cry
solid in uneasy permanence
chalk lines scrawled
beneath
your inception
tephra of fossilised thoughts
heavy as you dream
in untamed territory
when I grip your fingers
we create Pangea.
UNDER THE DRY BUSH HEIGHTS
LJ Ireton
With the tenacity of Eden’s snake, the low water, winding, divides the moors - tastes its way with a forked tongue turned purple with heather - patient and searching, nursery-rhyme crooked.
It veers away from the starlight offering high over jutting stones - the cold sting of hope Sparkling, ever-feeding green stalks and pilgrim sighs.
Fairy and rock-thinned, bog and shallow stream interweave under the dry bush heights. Where there are cracks There is also mending - mystical gives way to warning and the rolled out oat-like earth read likes a proverb written with the wisdom of thirst.
ART STÁNAS MÚðA (THRESHOLD STONES by Gabrielle Tamäya
Gabrielle Tamäya is an artist, spirit-led animist and cræft practitioner. Her work is rooted deeply in the Land of the British Isles, giving voice to the Unseen. Working closely with the Land and Ancestors, her work explores several core themes including those of remembrance, transformational journeys, inscendence and healing. gabrielletamaya.co.uk Instagram @gabrielletamaya / @foldweg
Catherine Cullen imagines humans on a continuum with the natural world, its wonders and terrors always near. A multi-disciplinary artist, her poems have appeared in the Madrigal and Wild Roof Journal. She lives on a bird migration flyway in Staten Island, NY.
Zoe Davis is a writer from Sheffield, England. A quality engineer by day, she spends her free time writing poetry and prose and especially enjoys exploring the interaction between the fantastical and the mundane, with a deeply personal edge to her work. You can also follow her on Twitter/X @MeanerHarker where she is always happy to chat.
LJ Ireton is a vegan poet and bookseller from London. Her poems have been published in numerous journals both in print and online, including Green Ink Poetry, The Madrigal, Spellbinder Literary Magazine, Acropolis Journal, Drawn to the Light, Tiny Seed Journal, Osmosis Press and Spelt Magazine. Her poetry features in the printed anthologies Spectrum: Poetry Celebrating Identity by Renard Press, 2022 and York Literary Review 2023 by Valley Press. Her praised debut nature poetry collection Lessons from the Sky was published with Ellipsis Imprints in March 2024 and launched at Waterstones.