by Fanny Mae
16th January 2026

Those places inside
those places damp, cold, faraway forgotten

let them have
a little sun

Those places made numb
by early dusks
endless grey
another rainy day
places hidden in the folds of the longest night

Let them have
a little light

There is a clemency
to this midwinter morning sun
that reaches
even the most
skittish
of shadows

‘Gorse Flowers’, Mixed media, 2021, by Pascale Rentsch

Fanny Mae is a musician, Insight Herbalist, and plant/song ritualist. She creates songs and poems from a place of deep connection with the land, the ancestors, and her plant kin. songoftheearth.uk