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May you see what you see through different eyes, may you hear with different ears, may you taste what you have never tasted and go further than yourself
How To Find A Faery ~
Nan Fry
Watch and honour your cat
When his green eyes look through
and beyond you. Do the same
for your dog when she sniffs
and barks at invisible things.
Find a beech forest or even
one tree. Stand under it and listen.
The rushing you hear will be wind
in the leaves or the murmur of elves.
Take a bath in the moonlight.
Where moonbeams touch
the water's skin, sometimes
a Nixie will swim.
Go to the shore and watch the tide
ebb at sunrise or sunset. Notice
how the wet sand holds the sky's
hues of mauve and coral.
Gradually the light brightens or fades,
and the sand returns to its own colour.
Even so the world of Faery washes
over this one, then recedes.
Here and there a shell gleams.
Pick up a shell and go home.
If it fades in the dry light of day,
shine it with your own spit
as a sign of the magic within you
that rises to meet the world's
darkness and flash.
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