Selina means ‘moon’ born in the place
of standing stones moors
moon-named Saturn-ruled
January 1820
but what of being
born fatherless? not Selina
but her Thomas illegitimate
my birthday twin we illegitimate
previously written-over knowledge
brings me to holy sites
star-aligned
dipped well buckets
Born already sinful they would say
say our mothers became
‘fallen’
in ruins?
Thomas and I laugh
clever to live
Aquarius stars as our sun
and that one
pinned to lion’s tail
Egloshayle
recorded there
the ledger on holy ground
Selina served partnerless
in workers’ prison
as archive records show
Thomas did too
and what did the child do
as she worked debt
imprisoned acts determined
by court her sin report her son Thomas
twinned with me also born
to a brave mother alone
I change weather with words
what we have said as ongoingness
hands drummed
small shells rattle our cumulous dream
drums a dream
of unwinding strands and repair
trace what the healer saw as a leaking
womb site
site of birthing to unspool
books of blood to open close
open close
I come equipped to heal
am here calling
cunning
unwind DNA strands
linked to time-trace unfold as fabric
in process-time
experienced as ‘flowing’
swirl in arms to meet as liquid
we act futurity
as fruit seed the story
spirals into seed the seed
with us a spiral story we carry
being imprinted
whorled seashell
a beaded partition of time
swales of thee released
melded or melting
candles collapse