Milena Williamson

@milenawilliamson.bsky.social

Poet & academic | Charm for Catching a Train http://tinyurl.com/bdcx2ka5 | Into the Night that Flies So Fast http://tinyurl.com/38tb8kzt

Pre-orders now open for MILK & MOON-WATER ~ Charm Poems by Milena Williamson 💫 A collection of 11 Old English metrical charms – ancient incantations spoken to ward off harm – creatively translated into magical and medicinal spells for the modern reader: buff.ly/mLxxThz Cover by Maggie Mason

Charm for Unfruitful Land (Remixed)
The good news is the wolves have returned to Europe.
The bad news is people are killing wolves again. I own no
underwear from this island. There is no purely wild place left
on this island. I buy wildflower seeds from the dark web.
I walk on the earth while there is still time and sprinkle seeds
on riverbanks, lawns and graveyards. The smoke pours
across borders and becomes the sky. It’s time to buy an air filter
and give it a name. I am stuck inside a well and Europe
is the silver bucket framed against the sky. We are living
in the overlap. We can create clouds from seawater.
We drilled into Antarctica to find the most transparent ice.
This ice is compressed by other ice so it’s dark down there,
dark enough to see neutrinos belly-flop into light.Bild

Thank you so much @planetpoetry.bsky.social for reading my poem "Entry" aloud and having such a kind, thoughtful discussion about it. A great episode all around, and such a lovely surprise to learn my work was featured!

Planet Poetry@planetpoetry.bsky.social · last yr.

New episode! Isabelle Baafi, Lewis Carroll plus @milenawilliamson.bsky.social @rialtopoetry.bsky.social @magmapoetry.bsky.social and looking forward to Free Verse... www.buzzsprout.com/1414696/epis...