Ash

Ash tree at sunset + various effects

 

Ash.

 

Sweet burning ash, wood for Viking boats

and for a witches broom.

Oss, its rune: the mouth, the form

resembling the growth of the tree itself,

its runic branches with upturned tips

reaching towards the sky.

Feathered leaves rustling in the breeze,

reluctant to anticipate the spring,

withholding green until the other trees are full in leaf,

retaining dry bunches of winged seeds

throughout the winter gales.

This is ash country, Odin’s ash,

image of Yggdrasil:

Oss.

 

 

(Published in Sarasvati no. 1 Nov 2008, Indigo Dreams Press)

 

 

 

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