As these cold days and long, wintry nights continue for a spell, I’m wishing you deep comfort, and hopes that winter’s embrace might at least at times be nurturing, cozy, restful. “As winter wraps her cloak around / She lights the fire…and gathers bones”

I tend to write more poetry in these deepwinter times – perhaps in a desperate attempt to find and remember beauty amidst such austerity. Small, hidden treasures in the shapes of stone, held in ice, sparkling in the stars…

I share them now in case they may soften or rekindle frozen bits of soul in these most interesting of times. May they be one small drop of medicine… An antidode. A spark. A remembrance.

Read along to the full transcript: rewildingwonder.substack.com/p/winter-poetry-reading

POEMS (+ music)

2:46 – 2 Midwinter Poems (Angelfire)

4:04 – The Belly of the Bear (Into the Void)

5:08 – Icicle Sky (Angelfire)

6:02 – This Narrow Passage (The Last Days)

7:12 – Sadist (Bed of Thorns)

7:42 – Micropoetics (Beneath the Waves)

10:38 – Obsidian (Angelfire)

11:24 – Let bones rattle to the floor… (Beneath the Waves)

13:06 – Diamonds (Phoenix)

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༄ May your heart be wild and free. May you find small wonders every day. And may you find your way home…to this beautiful place.

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ALL MUSIC IN THIS EPISODE:

Into the Void – Ariana Saraha (Maiden of Midnight)

Lady of the Trees – Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior (unreleased)

Angelfire – Ariana Saraha (Maiden of Midnight)

The Last Days – Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior (From the Wild)

Bed of Thorns – Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior (unreleased)

Beneath the Waves – Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior (From the Wild)

Phoenix (intro) – Ariana Saraha (Maiden of Midnight)

Shelter of the Wood – Ariana Saraha & Flight Behavior (From the Wild / podcast theme song)

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