SPIRITS

Ahbnoba

A forest and river goddess.


Empath
Dim Green
.

Ahdahn

Another god of wine.


Like a Spirit
.

Ahgreyeuss

Ahgreyeuss, Ahgreyeuss Pahn, Pahn, The Pahn

A pastoral god of mountains and grottos, having variable characteristics, and taking varying forms, but having always a feral side to his nature, often manifested in free sexual desire. (Ironically, or perhaps inevitably, his sexual desires are usually left unfulfilled.) Being a wild creature, he sometimes frightens people, but those who know him find him mostly harmless.



Ahlaveena

A mother goddess.


Channels
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Ahlmah

A moon goddess, thespian.


Squirrel
.

Ahnaheeta

Goddess of rivers and lakes, patroness of women, poetess.


Ahnaheeta
Ahnaheeta’s Bath
Ahnaheeta’s City Streets
An Inner Skin
Copper Wire
Confidence
The Slightly Persian Family
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Ahnjehlia

Ahnkahmna

A River nymph/goddess of dark, forest
water.


A Dark Shower of Forest Water
Small Dark Lips
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Ahpadeyva

Her face is like a starry sky.


What Pahn Needs
Wooly Thighs
.

Ahpsahla

An ocean goddess/nymph.


Ahpsahla’s Bog
.

Ahshehra

Great goddess, poetess.


Lost Sequences of Personalities
.

Ahsileess

God of the eclipse.


East of California
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Ahstrild

A goddess of affection, Pahn’s first love, artist.


Ahstrild
The Country Fair
Friend
Otherworld Canyon
Ignored
Small Woman and Ducklings
Reunion
Their Cultures of Roots and Molds
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Aiks

Pahn’s wife, a goat-elf, sometimes taking the form of a bear, sometimes inhabiting the forms of various nymphs.


The Memory of a Prophetic Dream
Aiks
Delivery
Searching in a Mall
An Old Love
Freedom of
Flying to China
A Night in Mixed Covers
Outflow
Surrogate
The Day After Halloween
His Mother from the Sky
The Storyteller now must Stop
Withdrawal
The Light of Day
The Deity of Calm Waters
Phoebe Ann
The Body of Charro’s Daughter
Poems
Arundo Donax
Tsunami
The Appearance of Junipera
Crossing the River
The Sand Hills of Aiks
Looking for Nests
In a Labyrinthine House
To Carry and be Carried
Anagrams
Nymphal
Traveling in the Desert
Waterfall
Tunnel
Pahn Ku Eeantha
Wisteria
Killing O.J.
Mountain Lion
The House of Egairia
Crying
Triptych
The Beginnings of Frost
Sleep Echo
Waves at a Rivermouth
A Stop in His Mother’s Ancestral Homeland
Walking in an Abandoned House
Naked Aiks
Ahnaheeta’s City Streets
Forest House
Big Blueberries
An Outing with Aiks
An Inner Skin
An Interruption
A Woman Resembling Zhoonév
As a Girl and a Man
Dim Green
Pahn is Lying in Plaid
The God’s Library
Otherworld Canyon
A Bird and a Flower
The Kahkahdrohm
Of Granite Lakes
Chandra—a Guide to the Spirit World
Of Desire Lost
Paranoid Schizophrenic and Demon Pinnacles
With Djuturna Again
The Slightly Persian Family
Warm Scandinavian Joy
Djuturna’s Breasts
Illicit Wealth and Warm Water
Round Trip
Young Intruder
Wooly Thighs
Aiks' Anger
A Spell
"Solo Yo"
Zhoonév in Voile
Qalisca

Athehna

Baudahilia

A thorn fairy.


Anagrams
.

Bormahna

A nymph of rough, healing springs.


Anagrams
.

Daphnis

Deermid

One of Pahn’s cousins, a god of refuge.


Acts and Events of Consequence
.

Delphina

A goddess of dolphins, an oracle.


Delphina
Delphina’s Bear
.

Dimphna

Djuturna

Druopohss

Penelopeya’s father, ‘Oak-face’.
.

Eealohna

A fairy of woodland glades.


An Elemental
The Most Beautiful
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Eeantha

A nymph of violet clouds.


The Day after Halloween
Pahn Ku Eeantha
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Eendekoi

Egairia’s friend or lover, decoy, hunting elf.


Phoebe Ann
The House of Egairia
.

Eeunks

Egairia

Ehvair

A fairy/goddess of beauty and intellect


Ehvair
The Beginnings of Frost
What Pahn Needs
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Eiriu

A nymph of wet meadows, clear streams, lakes, and mossy cliffs, poetess.


Eiriu’s Pool
.

Eithnia

A wind nymph of gentle voices and sweet words, one of Pahn's lovers.


Eithnia
An Old Girlfriend
Poems
Before Marrying Eithnia
Vague and Scattered Betrothals
.

Er-Illith

A blue-eyed, dark-haired deity of alpine tundra. Although she has a human form, she has no physical substance, and is therefore untouchable.


Looking for Nests
.

Freega

An autumnal earth and woodland goddess.


As if a Projection

Galaksaura

A nymph of wispy, wind-driven clouds.


The Drawing of a Dream
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Gendenwitha

A spirit/nymph of dawn (‘affixed to the forehead of dawn’) thespian.


Gendenwitha
Hanging Keys
On the Forehead of Dawn
A Small Dark Blue Myth
An Elemental
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Heemir

A giant/god of beer.


They Draw Still Closer
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Hehrmess

Hendrik

An angel, messenger, crier.


The House of Egairia
.

Jahneuss

Husband of Djuturna, god of transitions—doors, openings, beginnings, endings.


Damned if
Crying
Chandra—a Guide to the Spirit World
Djuturna's Breasts
.

Jehmz

An elf who wanders brackish estuaries hunting ducks and sharks.


Anagrams
.

Juna

Queen of the gods (she thinks).


The Gods' Library
Juna’s Garden
The Queen of the Gods
.

Junipera

Khnumis

A god of pottery.


Copper Wire
.

Kohmohss

A god of wine cellars.


Poems
.

Ku

A nymph of a spring, once a bird of many colors.


Pahn Ku Eeantha
"Solo Yo"
.

Kulehna

A Goddess of the moon.


Padlock
.

Kwahnyinn

A nymph, relating to compassion.


Testing the Water
.

Lakhehsis

Leenaiyos

A god of winemaking.


A Conversation
Poems
.

Lehsohveekha

A quiet and gentle forest fairy, storyteller.


Lost Sequences of Personalities
.

Litteljahn

A grandiose sprite.


In the Dark and Hemlock
Presence
.

Lukh

Aiks’ uncle, a sun god.


The Family
.

Mahreekah

A river nymph, enchantress of a salt-water marsh, woodlands, and wildlife.


His Contribution to the Party
.

Maiya

Hehrmess’ mother, a goddess of illusion.
.

Mayahri

A moon goddess also, storyteller.


Squirrel
Mayahri
.

Mehlia

A cloud nymph associated with ash trees.


The Day after Halloween
.

Mehtztlee

A simple sprite.


A Partial Thaw
.

Meydhv

A fairy/goddess (cup of intoxication) associated with sovereignty.


Wisteria
.

Mookdóph

A mischievous woodland sprite, Pahn’s childhood friend.


Dim Green
.

Nomioss

Nomioss, Nomioss Pahn

Pahn’s brother, a god of pastures.


The San Andreas
With Nomioss his Brother
The First Flood
Becoming Pahn
Reconstruction
Lot Lines
Hermitage
Walking with Phaithohn
The Kahkahdrohm
Signature
.

Nuneh

Tsovinar’s sister, a goddess of motherhood.


Goldfish
.

Pahn

Ahgreyeuss, Ahgreyeuss Pahn, Pahn, The Pahn

A pastoral god of mountains and grottos, having variable
characteristics, and taking varying forms, but having always
a feral side to his nature, often manifested in free sexual desire.
(Ironically, or perhaps inevitably, his sexual desires are usually
left unfulfilled.) Being a wild creature, he sometimes frightens
people, but those who know him find him mostly harmless.

Note: Because Ahgryeuss Pahn is in most of these poems, I have
only labeled him in the first poem where he appears.
.

Penelopeya

Phaithohn

Aiks’ brother, a god of over-confidence.


Killing O.J.
Walking in an Abandoned House
Zhoonév in Voile
.

Pholoa

Phthona

Aiks’ cousin, a sprite/goddess of envy.


The Light of Day
The Family
The Kahkahdrohm
.

Piteuss

Pluta

A cave nymph.


Poems
Free Affection
.

Rahbin

A regressive woodland sprite, Pahn’s childhood friend.


Living in a Barn
Killing O.J.
.

Rakhehla

Sehrahahl

An oak sprite of the south-west.


Losing Sehrahahl
.

Shahn

A nymph of a moonlit spring.


Shahn
.

Sihn

Penelopeya’s mother, a goddess, guard of a door.


Thanksgiving Eve
.

Shocheeka

Shocheeka, Shocheekehtsal

Many faceted moon/love goddess.


Quartz Schist
.

Theya

Aiks’ aunt, Yahpehtos’ sister, goddess of brightness and wealth.


The Family
Zhoonév in Voile
.

Toor

A god of dogma.


Killing O.J.
.

Tsovinar

A fiery elf/goddess who’s fury causes rain to be shed from the heavens. She and Pahn lost their virginity together.


Tsovinar
Waxing
Passageway
.

Vehlona

A goddess of aspiration, the curtain between Earth and Sky (Earth and Heaven) the first level of Sky, storyteller.


The Most Sensitive
.

Vehsta

A goddess of familial peace.


Channels
.

Wayland

Yahpehtos

Aiks’ father, a god of wounds.


Otherworld Canyon
Signature
.

Yaohwa

Zeyeuss

Hehrmess’ father, a god of many things.


The Appearance of Junipera
More Repairs
Eiriu’s Pool
.

Zhoonév

A nymph of lakes and intellect, poetess.


A Woman Resembling Zhoonév
Zhoonév in Voile
.

Explanation of Terms

The terms nymph, goddess, angel, fairy, elf, and sprite are used
more or less interchangeably. The author’s notion of each varies
as follows:

Nymph—a spirit inhabiting a tangible place or thing such as a
spring, river, peak, or type of tree.

God/goddess—a spirit of a phenomenon such as lightening, rain,
or wind; or an emotion such as love, or a concept such as law.

Angel—free ranging spirits that communicate with and
sometimes look after mortals.

Fairy—spirits, sometimes free ranging, sometimes inhabiting a
particular plant or place, often associating (but not usually
communicating) with mortals, can be multiple—in many places
at once.

Elf—free ranging spirits, sometimes associated with occupations,
sometimes associated with animals, and sometimes staying in the
houses of mortals; typically shape-shifters.

Sprite—free ranging spirits not attached to any place,
phenomenon, emotion, or concept.

Some spirits have the characteristics of more than one variety.
.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS


Some of these poems originally appeared in the following publications

Avocet
Dream International Quarterly
mojo risin'
The Muse Apprentice Guild (The MAG)
Transfer

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