Tag Archives: Witchcraft

to all recovering baptist girls with tarot cards under their beds

Her parents called it occult, or a less forgivable act of knowing before faith, without the blind not-quite-trust herds have, more obstinacy that thinks it is led by unseesn shepherdy to where it wants to go, but she sees sheeple, … Continue reading

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the stake

I will bet this life Jeanne d’Arc heard voices and so do I:  Not angels or other spirits, but voices of women called witches or even saints after their ashes cool. But she, and they were silenced, and the murmurs I … Continue reading

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