Intersections

Another summoning 
to pray on paper 
The easy ink flow 
a tithe to divine nature 
Another call goes out 
or perhaps it's all the same call 
that never stops 
My better angels find me here 
at another dawn 
filtering forces best not fought 

Few flowers still stand up 
to wintry fall 
No birds singing except 
in the south 
Somber skies, skeletal trees 
Ghost energies I can't 
quite cast out 

Should I befriend the phenomena 
Am I certain I'm entirely unhexed 
What breaks through to haunt 
this bender I'm on 
Bloodless be the banishment 

Unpoisoned if at all possible 
Sent away without scent of sage 
Warded off without 
wounding their ectoplasm 
Translocated to someplace 
wraiths can be safe 

A deer walks right up 
to my doorstep 
Another summoning 
by some soundless signal 
Looks at me for a long time 
through the window 
like it knows something 
I don't know 

Share the secret, I beseech 
Sacred soul, communicate your piece 

Do you see 
someone else but me 

What's the origin 
of the entity 

Oh choir coalesce around me 
Divinity defend 
intersections irrevocably 
opened in me 
My perimeter needs 
securing again