Twilight with Good Witches
Cause ailurophobia.
The cambions growl
In crepuscular gloom.
Merlin murmurs:
"Where are the witches?
They are late."
But fantasy magicians
Cannot influence time.
They cannot listen behind the silence.
They cannot watch carefully,
Except in fiction.
Who is a cambion?
What is Merlin?
Are you crepuscular?
Do you feed grimalkins?
When the sun is just below the horizon,
Have you ever suffered from ailurophobia?
Do you despise cat culture?
Do you hate the smell of cats?
Do you like Hey Diddle Diddle?
Have you seen a Cheshire Cat?
Do you ever knit mittens for kittens?
Do you carefully measure foxgloves?
Life is not a fairy tale.
Nor is it an animated cartoon or a nursery rhyme.
Have you ever made cotton mittens and joey pouches for injured koalas?
Have you ever rescued koalas from fires?
Where do you source your cotton and news and knowledge of forests?Good witches always source and store and use ingredients and products appropriately.
What do you do?
Which animals eat baby raptors?
Where are the owls to eat the mice?
Who has destroyed the habitat of birds of prey?
Good witches intentionally break the spell of comfortable ignorance.
They know the dangerous truth about pets and pests and products and cuteness.
Cats are predators.
Can the same be said of you?
Wonderful witches discourage courage pests.
Wonderful witches are never duped by cuteness.
The twilight of life on Earth is now.
Is this dawn or dusk?
All over the world, wonderful witches are doing their best to prevent all sorts of harm, at all hours of the day and night.
What do you know about astronomical clocks?
What do you know about Hickory Dickory Dock?
How do mice run up a clock?
How do owls and cats sail and sing in boats?
How do they speak before doing so?
What do cats know about botany?
What do you know about Alice?
What do you know about diagnosing art?
Perhaps you have been examining Ragnarök and science and diagnosing global catastrophic problems.
Digital digitalis will not revive a dying planet.
Yet global catastrophic risks have become actual global and local events, including catastrophes associated with cats.
What do you know about feral cats and feral pigs?
What do you know about abducted children and abused children and neglected children and abandoned children and runaways and disowned children and exploited children and hallucinations experienced by children and various signs of childhood psychosis?
What do you know about adventurous children?
What do you know about special needs and how they can be properly met?
How do you respond to vulnerability?
A sunset appears each evening.
Twilight begins and ends twice a day.
The morning twilight begins at dawn.
The evening twilight ends at dusk.
The night sky appears after dusk and remains until dawn.
The middle of the day is noon.
Each noon is followed by an afternoon.
The morning twilight ends when the sun begins to rise.
How does light pollution affect your experience of twilight, and of night?
How do clouds and mists and fog affect your experience of sunlight and darkness?
How does air pollution affect your experiences of days and nights and the weather?
How does daylight influence your life?
How does moonlight influence your life?
Perhaps you do not know much about sunlight.
Perhaps you do not know much about the Earth's atmosphere.
Perhaps you do not know much about horology.
Perhaps you have a vision impairment.
There are various ways to reflect upon the meaning and purpose of light.
How do you tell the difference between a witch and a priestess?
What do you know about relatively new European Heathenism and relatively old Germanic paganism?
Perhaps you wish to learn about the magic of seiðr.
What do you know about bracteates?
How do you attempt to interpret ancient meanings, and why do you do so?
How clearly do you distinguish between ancient meanings and modern ones?
How clearly do you distinguish between peaceful meanings and warlike meanings?
What do you know about galdr, and how have you acquired that knowledge?
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