"She is no handmaid to perform
Man's bidding or increase his store"
Category: Coven Verse
Coven Verse | Boldness
"I carry a boldness unfit for this world / a loud, brash, righteous fullness / a centaur breaking from a cage"
Coven Verse | Silent Retreat
Coven Verse | Witch, by Jean Tepperman
Coven Verse | 18. The Moon & 20. Judgement, by Catherine Fahey
"At Luna’s All-Nite Diner / the chefalopod serves up Eggs Prophetic, / 8 arms cooking in short order while / blending coffee beans with moonbeams."
Coven Verse | A recipe for elderberry & apple jelly, by Katherine McMahon
"The jar will glow like dark stained glass / and it will be just for you, / for your sacred mouth."
Coven Verse | You are the tiny person, the cupped hand, and every moon
On this night / a decade ends. A new one begins. / Breathe in - / Hold - / Breathe out.
(A birthday poem for Em)
Coven Verse | The Moon is Not Only Beautiful, it is So Far Away, by Julie Alexander
Once, the most important conversations / were about how the moon sounds— / the low arch of a cello, he said / the shiver of electrified bells, I said—
Coven Verse | love poem no. 2013, by Danielle Perry
"i have always been the moon, an expert in orbiting. i never had enough of my own gravity. until you."
Coven Verse | Next to the Divine, by YaliniDream
"Perhaps, / if every raised hand were / a tender call, / each roar from the sky / simply a passing spring storm, / each flash in the night / a firefly"
Coven Verse | A Witch’s Lent, by Sarah Diane
"The homestead that housed a hundred years of earth-workers / and caught crying babes, covered their heads / from cold country nights - it couldn't last forever."
Coven Verse | 21. The World & 2. The High Priestess, by Catherine Fahey
"updown strangecharm topbottom
become carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen,
oxygen, phosphorus, sulfur."
Coven Verse | Two untitled poems, by Marylou Anderson
"Today I dance with the bleached / skeleton of a great bear / She is held upright / by my own fear and darkness"
Coven Verse | The Wych Elm, by Meghan Purvis
"The tree stands full of starlings, grooves around its base / where cats scratch and foul the earth, furious / the bark won’t hold them when they climb."
Coven Verse | phoenixes are not gentle creatures, by Danielle Perry
she is a girl made of fire, boy / you must watch out for the witch / she will burn you down
Coven Verse | We are all made witches, by Ellie Wiseman
"We are rising in a wave
Drawn up by mother moon
And when it breaks, then you will know
Why they feared us in centuries before."
