Forty Different Jaspers

In honor of National Poetry Month and the start of Heathcote Earthings’ festival season, a gemstone poem! Join us today at the York, PA Fairgrounds for the Pennsylvania Herb Festival, and at Spoutwood Farm’s Fairie Festival Friday, April 30 through Sunday, May 2! Kubiando!!!

Forty Different Jaspers

Spread them out.
Tickle and tingle and touch.
Candle and wash them,
ready for ritual.

The weight of a collection.
Pencil lapis and lovers.

Forty different jaspers,
obsidians, agates–
dyed Brazilians
in seductive slices.

Gaia seducing my eyes
with mottles and swirls,
my chakras electrical sockets.

picture jasper,
desert divination.
I see the landscape of
my thirst.

My amethyst pendulum,
swaying drunk. Smokey quartz
to see through darkly
at phantoms waltzing.

I am a stage, a yoga mat.

Apache teardrops,
volcanic glass at the
bottom of a cliff to
remember a massacre.

As if looking through
darkness to see a tear
were magic.

—WT

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