Dark Materials

At the western border

of Colleen’s magical kingdom 

where the knotweed is growing 

there is a tangle of dark

materials

as if the Fae Wild

has started to creep

out from the wood pile

from the moss-covered stones,

from the ground.

It is right and proper

that she should have a gate

to their domain beside her

because she knows what it is

to have one foot 

in another world

and they can see her strength

is a wellspring of light.

Let us continue 

to invoke protection together

over our coffee and our

conversation in the morning 

making circles that spread out 

the ripples from a single pebble

dropped into the fabric of the universe.