I am a big fan of the email newsletter. I subscribe to so many that I get up at 5am to ensure I have morning newsletter reading time. Some I pay for full subscription access, and some I only get the free versions. Either way, I read all of them. They often stay in my inbox for weeks because there are links or ideas I want to return to. Sometimes I go back, often I don't. The most common ones that hang around are from Andrea Gibson, Holly Whitaker, Chris La Tray and Nadia Bolz-Weber.

A while back I was signed up for Nice Cave's The Red Hand Files but then I unsubscribed. I have to keep my newsletter list tidy or it can become unmanageable! For some reason, I recently resubscribed and it was because of this I was introduced to Tom Hirons' poem called Sometimes a Wild God. Tom wrote Nick because Nick (and The Bad Seeds) titled their newest album Wild God.

It's this poem I am obsessively reading. It has overt fairy tale imagery - ivy, mistletoe, wrens, kettles, foxes , otters and bears with flying houses and fist pounding lightning. It speaks to the wildness inside us all; the wildness we tamp down as we age and take on adulthood.

The wildness is calling to be released.

I would post the poem here if I could but I guess that's illegal and all. So you'll have to follow the link. Please take a minute to read this vividly written poem. And consider letting your own Wild God out, if even just for a bit.

Sometimes a Wild God