Come Out Of The Dark And Write With Us
For this equinox writers circle (March 7), we will bring seasonal themed prompts for you to weave more spells: let’s write together and continue co-creating a world worth living in.
“Everything is an exchange for fire, and fire for everything…” — Heraclitus
Hello CAW friends!
How are you? Yeah, we get it. We too are feeling like we can’t even begin to answer that question, at least not in any new or helpful way. Besides, there’s so much to say and even more to do. The extraordinary number of folks in the streets resisting and fighting like hell, and more and more people meeting each other in their neighbourhoods and keeping care alive is what keeps us all going, keeping the embers burning. It’s truly inspiring (yet not surprising) because it’s who we are.
Sometimes, though we can only meet online, which still connects us and often helps us do more.
One way we are communing virtually is by hosting some pretty fun writing circles and we have a new one coming up (more below!). The last gathering was generative and inspiring, and it was held around the Winter Solstice—we are thrilled to share a few pieces from the gathering (also below).
NEW SPRING EQUINOX WRITING CIRCLE
carla and Dani are hosting another Corvid Anarcho Witchcraft writing circle for paid members!
As we approach the Spring Equinox, thoughts of balance and equity tend to come to mind... but is anyone really able to find balance right now? While things in the world may be tipping rapidly and wobbling on the edge of what might feel like doom, the days are still growing longer, the time of blossoms is quickly approaching, too. And don’t forget Beltane and May Day, the worker’s holiday! There are—even in these dark times—at least a few things to celebrate. For this equinox writers circle, we will bring seasonal themed prompts for you to weave more spells: let’s write together and continue co-creating a world worth living in.
In this two hour (virtual) circle, we will provide an optional reading in advance, and in-group generative and thought-provoking writing prompts with options to share and connect with others in our CAW community. Where will you offer reciprocation? How will you celebrate the balance between the dark and the light?
What: Writing Circle
When: Saturday, March 7, 2026; 10 am- 12 pm (pacific time)
Where: Virtual! Outer space! Under the sea! From your future Beltane Fire! Anywhere you have an internet connection!
Fee: Free to paid subscribers
Who: You! Also: carla joy bergman and Dani Burlison
How to sign up: email us at CAW.ShinyThings@proton.me
Other info: We are capping this workshop at 20 participants, with sign-ups closing on March 2, 2026
Writings from CAW’s Winter Solstice gathering
What to plant in these dark days?
—By Jake Lyon
Today, I’m planting my
feet
In hopes that rebellion might grow
Rooted into the ground,
I could find you, comrade and
intertwine our tendrils
So that if–when–
They grab us by
our throats and pull, to pluck
us from the earth
a long string of
our friends will flow out
To succeed, they’ll have to keep pulling
forever, or
die trying
Mischief!
—By Jake Lyon
Getting into trouble is not always a bad thing.
Throwing wrenches in a machine made for killing is a benevolent act.
Mischief: that holy seizure of life in all its guerrilla antics–
taking one more cookie from the jar;
sneaking out at night to scrawl onto the town messages of rebellion;
breaking arbitrary and violent laws to feed and clothe your neighbors.
Of course, to miscreants, ne’er-do-wells, and rabble rousers mischief is just business as usual–
it’s the Parent, the God, the Cop that paint it in such an unholy light.
Who can blame them for embracing it? It’s their nature.
The nature of the child in every person, tip-toeing outside the bounds of permission and snickering.
A love letter to the Dark
–Alana L.
Dear Darkness and Cold,
they could never make me hate you.
I won’t fall for the propaganda anymore.
True, I am a Spring baby, Heat-lover, Day Person—birthed in the tropics, viscerally warm blooded.
I LOVE the Light and the Heat!
But I am polyamorous after all, and I love you too,
No one gets everything they need from only one
season
So thank you for making me slow down,
making me think,
giving me permission to be sick
and fatigued
to escape
into my inside world.
I love you for supporting my shadow self, for enveloping me, keeping me close
Thank you for giving the Light and the Heat a break, for letting them rest and recuperate too.
You bring a good out in me.
###The Dog Laugh
—Nicol Darling Udy
Human voices are not much higher than the strutting of the rivers
Who wash the rhythms of the year
If you spend time listening
With no background in the meaning
You will hear nothing more than bird tones, sonar calls, shrill shapes in the wind
Torn by a passing truck who offers nothing new
Just the sound of another river
Shrill shapes with their own intent and will
Make the face of a dog in your mind. Speak. Can you, with enough sympathy, give that speaking dog’s barks your own rhythms? Your personalities and opinions? Your voice, as bayings and chirpings and barkings and whimpers. Or does the dog’s laugh play you like an instrument?
Come back. Look at me. Imagine me as a human being. You know my features, my meaning. You know my language. Listen to me.
Hear in my voice the dog’s little joke – you are too far from your roots to be understood.
###Follow the sunset line
—Nicol Darling Udy
Follow the sunset line
Where the light shatters
Into mercurial lamina holding
Light cast too long ago
To hide from you or I
Bleeding gallantly wounded colors
That endlessly bends to night
Then turn around bright eyed
To take it all in again
An all shimmering gemini
Quivering with sweaty labor
As it forms the next day’s horizon
featured image is a painting by Luca Ponsato
