A Victorian-style poem about embracing the totality of light and dark.
If You Dislike a Maxim, Make Your Own
After Gertrude Stein Do for yourself what you persistently do for others wishing they would do for you. Do for yourself what you persistently wish…
Hymn to Amun in the Time of Revelation
Amun was one of many deities in Kemetic theology who created the cosmos, known as “The Hidden One.” Gratitude to David Klotz for his paper…
Something Beautiful is Happening Today
Awake. Tongue tracing crisp contours of air. Skin warmed, eye illumined, red and green cells fueled by the teacher of generosity, whose passion daily enters…
Poem: This maddening itch in my heart is like–
This maddening itch in my heart is like– poison woven into tissue, sepsis radiating from the site where unspoken words putrefy in anger and hope,…
forgetting a home you’ve never known
The Spirit of Phinney Ridge Children you are alien upon me, travelers pausing, eating the flesh of other lands, drinking the water of other streams,…
In honor of all women and all feminities
Seven Forms of Het-Heru Lady of the Universe You in whom spirit is housed and given sustenance pour bliss and suffering from manifold udders, streaming…
To Eris
Subtle Twin, whose hand stirs the cauldron of space, twinkling chaos in grace: unlock the closets, unrust neglected doors, unseal and spill what we may…
Odes to Time
To Linear Time Blessings on you, highway between birth and death upon which experience can flower and wither. Finite currency, ever-depleting account, the hoarding of…
Advice for a New Year
Ignore perfect answers. Perfect, instead, mistakes. Befriend and tend your shame, that nuzzling beaten pup whimpering through thin bars, mutt tongue licking your heart. Notice…