Of Mùthadh/Mutability

Robin Robinson

            (a protection spell)            

This book is for the taken: for all those feart of the glamour,

the skaith of the evil eye — weird-set, ill-minted

or only wildering — their bodies in motion, flowing

or full-flown, rapt with heart-hunger.

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Grass twists up through my hair now

and my mouth is full of stones.

Tell my mother and father I am coming, tell them

I have not grown old.

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mùthadh: (Gaelic) change, mutability, metamorphosis; pronounced 'moo-huh'

glamour: magic, enchantment (cf. glamourie, gramarye, grimoire)

skaith: hurt, harm, damage

weird-set: fated, destined, cursed

ill-minted: malformed

wildering: going astray, bewildered, lost

flowing: unstable, changeable

heart-hunger: a longing for affection