What do you know of magic?

with you slight of hand

and parlor tricks

I see no aura around you

no shimmer of power

Do your ancestors talk to you at all?

mine have walked this path

with me for decades

guiding the powers I use

the gifts they’ve entrusted me with

Can you cook up a tincture?

I can heal what your

doctors cannot identify

Can you unhex the damned?

or curse the immoral?

Do you worship the holy

Earth around you?

Or profit from her destruction?

Do you know the names

of the birds by seasons?

or which mushrooms will

heal you or kill you?

Do you walk barefoot

in the forest and feel

the heart beat of our mother?

Tell me again…

what do you know of magic?