painting by marlene vine (marlenevine.com), poem by roy herndon smith
enamored odin
makes a castle with a wall
and a moat of fire
to possess her, but
frigg is crimson flames, black rocks
and swirling soft airs
raging odin makes
a fortress of words, but frigg
is the unspoken
dispossessed odin
wanders lost over the earth
and, in the end, sleeps
frigg holds him in dreams
and stillness beyond knowing
he wakes in wonder
