Illustration is ” bone white hollows”, a sketch for a piece of silver darkness.
A DEEPENING LOW
It shall return to silence soon enough,
So let the railing vent and blow.
They fall into nothingness:
Grains of irritation
That might turn to pearl
But instead accumulate
And smother for no good purpose
But decay.
And decay is within
That treasured storehouse,
That defining hall of measurement
Where all apparent becomes fixed
And sure.
All, all, fairy gold- dust and sticks.
No ell, no cubit, but all chains,
All a measure of inappropriate approximation,
Misreadings, misjudgments,
Missed, missing persons,
Never identified, lost;
Posted posters “Gone Missing”,
Abraded, disfigured by time
And unkind passings.
The subtle arc of self-destruction
So like flying, not falling.
But there it is:
A matter of perspective,
Parallax and doppler.
Red shift
As one by one
Certainties flicker out
Beyond reach.
I am, after all, it seems,
Defined by the shape
Of emptiness,
And maybe only that, too,
Is borrowed.
“And we scatter,
The many millions of us
In different directions,
Self-absorbed,
Constantly muttering
Our own names
Lest we forget ourselves……”
Illustration is “bone claw moon”, a sketch for a silver design that may one day emerge from the mirk
simonhlilly 
I really like that last stanza. Is it yours?
Thanks! Yes, I found it written on the following page after I had written the first part of this piece. Seemed an interesting juxtaposition. From what I recall these words popped into my head one morning, wrote them down, but didn’t develop into anything else…
The illustrations are wonderful.
Thanks! I look forward to getting time to work these up in silver….
You might be interested to view these images of Ironwing tarot
http://www.mineralarts.com/artwork/ironwingtarotminors.html
Don’t forget to view the major arcana cards also.
Thanks, but link doesn’t seem to work. I’ll try another way…
Bummers, functioning at my end. I think you know how to google, bing etc quite well….
Yes I’ll do it once I am on my grown up computer. This iPad seems to be a little reluctant to go wandering off onto other pages at the moment….
Major Ironwing:
http://www.mineralarts.com/artwork/IronwingMajors.html
Spirit guides:
http://www.mineralarts.com/artwork/spiritguides.html
Once you see, I believe you’ll understand why I dropped the links.