Coyopa is Tom Hirons, is me. I’m a storyteller, wilderness rites of passage guide, poet and occasional web designer living in Midlothian, Scotland.
Coyopa is a Quiche Maya word. It means ‘lightning in the blood’; it is duende; it is kundalini.
Coyopa is the real thing, the aah, the ka-ching, ka-zam of recognition, of aliveness; the thrum of the music and the power of the dance. It is the rush of energy in the body when something touches your soul. Coyopa is what separates the magical from the mundane.
This is where you can find some of my poetry, prose, ramblings and rantings. This other site is about my wilderness rites of passage and therapy work; this other site is about the Mayan calendar.
Just to explain, here’s mostly what’s where:
| Jack Swift Born of Kin, these are stories that I write and perform the same day. Since 2001(?), Jack has been going on adventures with gurus, shamans, astral bears, angels, Baba Yaga, aliens and entities of dubious origin but he is, miraculously, none the wiser. In 2004, some of the Jack Swift tales turned into a book, Jack Swift and the Burundanga Blues. If you’d like to read it, please forward the costs of self-publishing it and I’ll be happy to send you a copy. Or send me an email and I’ll send you a PDF. More collections are planned. The next is provisionally titled Big Mama Bad-Ass and the Boogaloo Road. Any resemblances between Jack and persons living or dead is purely synchronistic trickery. |
| Poetry A selection of things from the last few years – some have been spoken at events, others are seeing the light of e-day here for the first time. |
| The Falcon’s Child This is the novel I started writing in, hmm, 1995… Finished in early 2009, still looking for a publisher. There are a few sections here as tasters – very different from Jack Swift, it’s the story of Digger Gunn, who splits his soul in two. |
| Miscellaneous Oddments Everything else that isn’t poetry, Jack, or The Falcon’s Child. |
I co-host the monthly open-mic fiesta that is Kin and that’s all you need to know, my friend. If you disagree, come stalk me at facebook or even follow me on Twitter, but better still, come along to Kin.
If you like what you read here, please leave a comment and say so – if you’ve got your own writing, let me know and I’ll have a read.
Enjoy the ride!
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