The Witch

Nov. 27th, 2025 07:51 am
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Longer version with note and explanation here:

https://open.substack.com/pub/smokingboot/p/maybe-you-didnt-stay-long-enough?r=1r9jj7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

But short and to the point, I remembered this today:

The Witch⁣
 ⁣
 No cauldron crafter, gatherer of herbs,⁣
 No broomstick, poppets, pumpkin by the door.⁣
 I am that time the clouds looked upside down,⁣
 The quizzical expression of a stranger,⁣
 The message for you chalked on a pavement⁣
 When you remembered what was going to happen.⁣
 I am what rolled the escalator backwards,⁣
 Graffiti at the bus station deserted,⁣
 Giving you directions before you blinked,⁣
 Found yourself atop a rodeo steer, blinked again,⁣
 Passport checked, flying to another country.⁣
 I am a scrabble tile for no word ever.⁣
 I am the wiring in this elevator.⁣
 The city in the tesseract and its guide,⁣
 Storm of the air, sand whirling in the heart.⁣
 A voice will say, 'we don’t know what this is⁣
 so til we do, best call it a witch.'⁣
 But you know better when you hear my name⁣
 among the murmurations on the wind.⁣
 ⁣⁣

Date: 2025-11-27 01:57 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] summersgate
I love your poems.

Date: 2025-11-27 08:08 pm (UTC)
thatjustwontbreak: Hawkeye from M*A*S*H* reading in bed (Default)
From: [personal profile] thatjustwontbreak
This is such a good poem! The line about the rodeo steer. Killer.

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