karma – Jordyn Saelor

in these pages

All fates are the same, it seems: whether witch or demon, rabbit or tree, the tones just tell us to

and stars

Perhaps someone knew that the strings of fate ran in a circle. Or maybe, like most dreams, I made up nonsense.

of naps

with the spirit banished and my body recovered and a couple trees drained to unwrinkle my skin and un-stoop my back, I set out

23- span

Step 1: find out where the strings of fate are leading me. Step 2: do not that. Step 3: catch karma in the act of correcting me and take it prisoner.

flap your wings

I said I want to defy gravity but practically, what does that look like? Well. Let’s make a list of the facts: I became a witch, which very few

raise your hands

all that rises someday dies, where does this leave us, should we cry, head must conquer guilt and shame heart must seek power and fame

17- have it all

On Monday, my servants bring me platters of fruit. On Tuesday, they pour me rich rose baths. On Wednesday, I give a speech from the rooftops and bestow

My two elective Strings of Fate classes had the names “divining the weave of the future” and “karma as a lens for interpreting the past.” In my fifteenth year I studied karma and in my seventeenth I studied weaves; yes, I know the stereotypical approach would be to