Shadow Smoke

Let Your Art Be the Necromancy

At the River’s Bedside

Oct 4 • 

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August 2025

when icarus set the sun on fire

Rilke might've been onto something...but it is too hopeful for my taste

Aug 11 • 

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June 2025

spirit children

In her womb, hermetic links to the skies — disguised as song — leap from promontories into an eclipseShadow Smoke is a reader-supported publication.

Jun 6 • 

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at the Loom

images inspired from a walk at twilight with my daughter and husband

Jun 5 • 

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April 2025

sorrowful dream song

Resting in the twilight of her dream song I am a crane pulled through the limbs of heavy snow in cascades, obliviated and drenched in sorrow

Apr 12 • 

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March 2025

the crescent and the dove

The walls move with Paleolithic contrast — Lying beneath the naked Wisteria, what crept amongst her shadows waved through endless mystery — The crescent…

Mar 12

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February 2025

petrified sun, shattered twilight

Obelisk, be held by the shattered twilight make pathology of the universe and mythology of the stone in abysmal waters watch as the roots become shadows…

Feb 21 • 

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rhythms of hemlock

Metallic clips of humming formed on my lips but I can't see far ahead past your shoulder as you hold me close your heart beats — the only song I know …

Feb 3 • 

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January 2025

love in the eyes of my newborn

Incandescence cries on the outline of tomorrow her river stone eyes skip beats over the river of my heart— as laughter turns to ripples from her bones…

Jan 31 • 

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forgotten muse

haunted by broken memories

Jan 29 • 

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on leaping into love

Wooden stones peel back at her face water beads ripple down her cheeks — stepping out into the sunlight ferns dance with the sounds of her heartbeat…

Jan 4 • 

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December 2024

Placental Longing

Steward of time trapped in momentary bliss and silences dripping from the mouth shepherd me through grief in memoriam of twisted roses and bath water …

Dec 20, 2024 • 

Summer Cattanach

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