The Star-Spangled Turban
~ Amit Majmudar

Hot pink frosting
on my chocolate-
cupcake noggin,

switched-on lightbulb-
yellow, tulip-
bulb top-heavy

orange, sky-blue,
bruise-blue, navy
thought cloud, darkening:

Any towel,
any shawl will
serve as well to

bind this open
wound atop me,
mark me off as

not quite level-
headed, tops on
any watchlist.

It’s Old Glory
that I choose this
time: I pleat her,

sweep her, set her
on my head as
reverently as

any U.S.
M.C. honor
guard triangle

on a coffin.

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 29, 2017
Active Influence: Glut, Einmyria & Eisa/Three of Wands
Rune: Wan/Potential
Hidden Influence: Bylgja/Three of Cups

Your enthusiasm is boundless today. Your brain is in high gear, coming up with ideas faster than you can write them down. Anything and everything seem possible. The threes are a perfect balance of energy and emotion.

Enjoy the creative flow, and let yourself dance with the energy. You can work out practical details later—the important thing today is to enjoy the creative process and the day.

What does she see? How much will she tell you?

Read This Poem from the Bottom Up
~ Ruth Porritt
(You can read this poem from the first line to the last line, or the last line to the first line)

This simple cathedral of praise
How you made, from the bottom up,
Is for you to remember
Of Andromeda. What remains

Until you meet the ancient light
With your sight you can keep ascending
Its final transformation into space.
And uphold

The horizon’s urge to sculpt the sky
Puts into relief
Your family’s mountain land
Upon the rising air. In the distance

A windward falcon is open high and steady
Far above the tallest tree
Just beyond your height.
You see a young pine lifting its green spire

By raising your eyes
Out onto the roof deck.
You pass through sliding glass doors
And up to where the stairway ends.

To the top of the penultimate stanza
Past the second story,
But now you’re going the other way,
Line by line, to the bottom of the page.

A force that usually pulls you down,
Of moving against the gravity of habit,
While trying not to notice the effort
And feel what it’s like to climb stairs

The Giants’ Tarot, Raven Kaldera

Draw for April 28, 2017
Active Influence: Daeg/Knight of Wands
Rune: Stan/Keystone
Hidden Influence: Kolga/Six of Cups

You are inspired to complete whatever has been lingering unfinished. You can see the goal line just ahead, and you are ready to make the final push to cross it and cross this item off your to-do list. Where is this energy coming from? All the internal work you’ve been doing has released old patterns, old ways of thinking, feeling, and behaving that no longer serve your best interests. With that energy unlocked from the ice, you are fired up and ready to finish!