> ## Content Index
> Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.missingwitches.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further.

# may we all be given rest
- URL: https://www.missingwitches.com/may-we-all-be-given-rest/
- Published: 2025-03-28T15:21:13.000Z
- Updated: 2025-03-28T15:21:13.000Z
- Description: may we both be given peace.
- Author: Editor
- Tags: Zine, Witch Poetry, Rituals and Spells

may we all be given rest  
in the winter of our days  
beneath snow-heavy boughs  
packed in with slumbering seeds.  
may we only hear wind as a whisper  
and the cool drip of icicles  
on frozen soil. wrapped up in our  
bearskins, warm within the earth,  
kept still by the silence of our dreams.  
unstirred by troubles, our weary  
wings tucked underneath full bellies.  
the simplicity of sleep, in a world  
blinded by light, deafened to the  
soft press of paws against the ground.  
this is where we hide now. rooted  
together for heat, the soft  
of you and the soft of me. woven  
into the dirt that is our bed.  
may we not be found  
until it is our time to push up  
through the underbelly, feel air  
on our skin and on our tongues.  
may we forget there is a world  
beyond this soothing dark  
until our eyes are ready for the sun.  
we don’t need to be anywhere  
but here. for now.  
may we both be given peace.

---

Celeste Briefs is an emerging poet and writer from Colorado whose work has been published by *The Applause Journal*, *Sixfold*, and CU Denver Anschutz Medical Campus's *The Human Touch*. She received her B.A. in English, Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Colorado, Denver, and currently serves as a student success coach with City Year Denver. Throughout her work she has explored themes of liminality, mythology, sensuality, and wonder, constantly seeking out hidden connections between the body and the earth, the mouth and the voice, the real and the dreamt. Embodying herself fully in her writing, she seeks to shine a light on the formlessness of being, the confusion of an ever-changing body, and the chaos of an ever-changing world. Though deeply informed by mental illness, her words nevertheless reach with longing towards a greater understanding of resilience, love, and the mundane things that make magick in our lives. Celeste also publishes long-form nonfiction pieces on her Substack newsletter *The Lodestone Review*, where this piece was originally published.

[*The Applause Journal*](https://uafs.edu/applause/issues/issue-31/poetry/ekphrasis-in-the-louvre-october-2014-and-other-poems.php?ref=missingwitches.com)

[*Sixfold*](https://old.sixfold.org/PoSummer23/Briefs.html?ref=missingwitches.com)

[*The Human Touch*](https://indd.adobe.com/view/11e6b0f2-d342-4fac-925b-e382659e0988?ref=missingwitches.com)

[*Substack*](https://open.substack.com/pub/celestebriefs/p/the-labyrinth?r=nvskj&utm%5Fcampaign=post&utm%5Fmedium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false)