Awe steals the breath

A series of occasional vignettes

The ravens arrive on the final day. Swooping and swirling in an acrobatic display that has us up and out of seats, faces tilted skywards, wows steaming up the windows.

Fitheach. Corbie. Corvus corax.

This playful trickster has many names yet answers to none.

Friend to the wolf. Feaster of flesh. Cailleach’s dark disguise.

A shifter of forms. Star of fearful…