Jake Shaw's Blog, page 3

De3thwish

Fields of wheat weave silent
Sitting rooted something thin

Wind threading in and out
Nothing stirs above but when

The war ends

Sits a lone gunslinger
Shell shocked pain reaver

Jacket yellow as the crops
Copper soil but the plots

Where bodies bled out
And brown uniforms turned

To mulch

Overworked by the ruin
Wrought by the struggle

Wheat whips in wind
Around the gun wielder

Had a deathwish that
Ended when he didn’t

Knew nothing but shooting
Now staring at irony

This was the last fight
He neede...

Grace Dahl Portrait Shoot – 11/10/18

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Fun shoot with Grace Dahl the other day. It helped how much of a natural she seemed at being in front of the camera, and I got an earnest chance to try out that Helios 40-2. Very nice, chilly, transitional weather in Puyallup gave some fantastic natural light, so I got to use the most of my aperture. With autumn quickly becoming winter, the skies were clear, and the ground was awash in orange.

 

Beta 65s – Sometime in August

Getting some Whoop time under my belt.

Sleepovers

I haven’t felt so normal
In so long

I guess it only makes sense
That after having you over
I get to wake up to abnormal
When I roll over and you

Aren’t there

Nidhogg

Look on and despair
Ye
Deep sea serpents
And articulate devils

I am the true
Nidhoggr

And you will
Understand fear

Ellensberg Omen

You can’t but see the haze
Lung irritating
Trees on horizon hills
Lay cloaked, beyond still

A leak below
Spitting sulphur
Into a crystal sky
To turn smokey quartz

What was once beautiful
Is now still in a different form
Now torn the ground
And make leak the unfound

All the birds call
For any port in this storm
Tracking the air
Like veins in a hand

Reaching with their wings
Momentarily
Through the choking
Air caked with grime

Before the world returns
To a façade of
Smokey quartz
And no sanctua...

Ancestral Shrines

I’m trying to invoke the spirit of autumn
With you
Trying to tie up all these loose threads
And bind rocks together
In the shrines we’ve built
Out in the woods
To remember what
We’ve left behind

Never dying like
Those falling leaves

Just another place to worship
How we got to where we are
Before we move on
Forever

News – No Banishments Yesterday

Day 1,273 – The Watchers at the edge of Un and Verisum have, in a first observed cycle, gone one entire day without banishing a citizen to Somewhere Else.

Historically, the Watchers have acted as the source of decongestant for some of the most busy districts in the city, those on the edge of the city’s East side. Administration archivists have observed that both Watchers have failed to banish a single person, signalling a day of utmost certainty that everyone was safe that day.

This raises q...

Lake Crescent

Leaves lying on the
Surface of a lake crescent
Floating by in
Nitrogenless currents

Clouds compact
Sky drips into water

Still floating on by
A stem and petal carefree

Trainside Ice Cream

Cannabis shops
Replacing roadside trains
Where we used to get
Ice cream