update from sparkleup

.tags

@@ -353,6 +353,7 @@ gender	writing/sawtooth/disapperance.md	3;"	vimwiki:writing/sawtooth/disapperanc
 gender	writing/sawtooth/the-fool.md	3;"	vimwiki:writing/sawtooth/the-fool\twriting/sawtooth/the-fool#gender
 gender	writing/surgery-novel/index.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/surgery-novel/index\twriting/surgery-novel/index
 haiku	writing/poetry/ekstasis.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/ekstasis\twriting/poetry/ekstasis
+haiku	writing/poetry/pale-she.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/pale-she\twriting/poetry/pale-she
 history	writing/tu-pater-et-mater.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/tu-pater-et-mater\twriting/tu-pater-et-mater
 horror	writing/belek.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/belek\twriting/belek
 horror	writing/inner-demons/content/a-010.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/inner-demons/content/a-010\twriting/inner-demons/content/a-010
@@ -517,6 +518,7 @@ poetry	writing/poetry/mental-health.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/mental-health\
 poetry	writing/poetry/misc.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/misc\twriting/poetry/misc
 poetry	writing/poetry/missives.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/missives\twriting/poetry/missives
 poetry	writing/poetry/numeno.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/numeno\twriting/poetry/numeno
+poetry	writing/poetry/pale-she.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/pale-she\twriting/poetry/pale-she
 poetry	writing/poetry/uvaip.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/uvaip\twriting/poetry/uvaip
 poetry	writing/sawtooth/malina.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/sawtooth/malina\twriting/sawtooth/malina
 poetry	writing/writefortips.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/writefortips\twriting/writefortips
@@ -888,6 +890,7 @@ writing	writing/poetry/mental-health.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/mental-health
 writing	writing/poetry/misc.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/misc\twriting/poetry/misc
 writing	writing/poetry/missives.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/missives\twriting/poetry/missives
 writing	writing/poetry/numeno.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/numeno\twriting/poetry/numeno
+writing	writing/poetry/pale-she.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/pale-she\twriting/poetry/pale-she
 writing	writing/poetry/uvaip.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/poetry/uvaip\twriting/poetry/uvaip
 writing	writing/post-op-erotica.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-op-erotica\twriting/post-op-erotica
 writing	writing/post-self/apres-un-reve.md	2;"	vimwiki:writing/post-self/apres-un-reve\twriting/post-self/apres-un-reve

writing/index.md

@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
 ## Poetry
 
 * [Haiku](poetry/haiku)
+* [Pale she](poetry/pale-she)
 * [Unimportant verse about important people](poetry/uvaip)
 * [Poems from missives](poetry/missives)
 * [Mental health](poetry/mental-health)

writing/poetry/pale-she.md

@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+%title Pale she
+:writing:poetry:haiku:
+
+'''
+Her eye turns inward,
+vision dims and movement stills
+as winter claims her.
+
+Thoughts like leaves fall slow,
+hesitate, drift, rustle, sigh.
+Frost-rimed remnants rot.
+
+Some paler she asks:    
+do you see the sky through me?
+Do I frame its mien?
+
+That pale she lacks words.
+She does not speak, cannot speak
+without the wind's hum.
+
+Still she asks, all breath,
+am I invisible yet?
+Does snow tend steel skies?
+
+And when her breath fails,
+dark branches write on the clouds:
+Summer is a dream.
+
+Paler still, she cracks.
+Dreams, also, of ax and fire,
+false springs to thaw hands.
+
+Silent now, demands:
+there must be an end, there must be.
+Spring, silence, or fire.
+
+No one answers her.
+She stands stark against flat skies,
+ice claims bark, claims wood.
+
+Darkness comes heavy.
+Sleep for now, sleep forever,
+midwinter cares not.
+
+Neither, now, does she.
+How could pale wood think of whens?
+Of thaws and green things?
+
+The sun tells her lies:
+Melting snow will feed your roots,
+Seasons imply change.
+
+She does not listen.
+Pale she does not believe him:
+Brother sun's too quick.
+
+Brother sun tolls days,
+and pale she has no more need
+for hours with seasons.
+
+Brother sun's movements
+are breaths to her: days blink slow
+when spring is a dream.
+
+Sister moon speaks now:
+follow me, set time by me ---
+my months are guideposts.
+
+Pale she sleeps, sleeps still.
+Waking her may have listened.
+Endless winter calms.
+
+She invites cold in.
+Water, crystallized, freezes;
+cells lyse, die in droves.
+
+If spring never comes,
+pale she supposes, that's fine.
+Winter is for dreams.
+
+She'll dream, or she won't.
+She'll carry on or she won't.
+Cold has claimed heartwood.
+
+No one perceives her.
+She becomes terrain's wild hair,
+a forgiven sin.
+
+Would she wake for saws?
+For axes with keen-edged blades?
+Would she even care?
+
+And still the sun sets.
+And still the moon waxes, wanes.
+And still seasons change.
+
+Should pale she not wake,
+venerate her mute demise.
+Cut her down, cord her.
+
+A new life in fire,
+for pale she gives heat in death.
+Let this be her spring.
+'''
+
+--- 2020-11-17