Notes by TARA’s Cara Coffey; in the feature image, as I read two poems, SQUIRRELS SCAMPER AND PLAY.

They came as I read poems:

6:44 amc 20 August 2025.

Adrienne Rich: THE FACT OF A DOORFRAME: Poems Selected and New: 1950-1984

From “Necessities of Life” : 1966

02 DECEMBER 2024

THURISAZ: 21: GateWay: Non-Action : Gods Thor

“Observe it all, bless it all, release it all…..(the past)

BERKANA: SOWELU: MANNAZ

All-Growth (past/present) BRINGS

Wholeness: Continually (present) unto our

Divine Selves: being I Am divine balance.

…from “Necessities of Life” by Adrienne Rich (1966)

“….Now I was hurriedly

blurringinto ranges

of burnt red,

Burning green,

whole biographies swam up and

swallowed me like Jonah….”

“…Till wolfed almost to shreds,

I learned to make myself

Unappetizing. Scaly as a dry bulb

thrown into a cellar….”

10 December 2025

fourth stanza

“Is it in the sun that truth begins?/Lying under that battering light/the first few hours of summer/I felt scraped clean, whashed down

to ignorance…..”

tenth stanza:

“Tonight, I think of winter,/winters of mind, of flesh,/sickness of the rot-smell of leaves/turned silt-black, heavy as tarpaulin,”

eleventh stanza:

“obedience of the elevator cage/lowering itself, crank by crank/into the mine-pit/forced labor forcible-renewed–“

4 OTHILA Retreat, Inheritance

Shedding old skins and even through our work is hard and intensly mundane/mechanical/forced–

may our cores be known by us as we become who we truly are gradually while being faithful daily. #SorceressTara

At which point, I allowed Sorceress Tara to rest in peace for a year. For One Year, namely 2026, I am #GAIATara. I do not know why.