My Sanctuary
Rocks, candles, etc.
I love my bathtub: candles, crystals, incense and magical things fill my space
There’s a glass vase with sand and shells from my dad’s last sandcastle, the one I built around his ashes to give him back to the ocean.
Obelisks stand tall in my windowsill.
A fairy observes a cascading fountain
A Tibetan healing bowl turns my pained strikes into healing tones of harmony.
A goddess observes the sanctuary I created for myself.
The moon, ever changing, rests between candles.
My Master’s degree in English literature hangs where I can see it while I recline under more moons than two.
Geology was my lab science in undergrad; my rocks ground me.
I love nothing better than a rainy day in my cauldron, except perhaps a starry moonlit night.
But something even better happened today:
About the Creator
Harper Lewis
I'm a weirdo nerd who’s extremely subversive. I like rocks, incense, and witchy stuff. Intrusive rhyme bothers me. Some of my fiction might have provoked divorce proceedings in another state.😈
MA English literature, College of Charleston
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Comments (3)
Beautiful!
What a lovely space! I used to have crystals with my plants in my window, your photos reminded me of that, but yours is way cooler.
beautiful 🌕🌑