The Heavy Beauty of Our Life 

  On a bike at night with no lights going the wrong way down the street   I’m alive right now, at this moment that’s all that matters I get it burn from the inside out   But seeing this makes me cringe and laugh no, not cringe, but squirm not laugh, but whoop I’ve…

You Are Much More Than a Memory

You are much more than a memoryYou are something profoundthat I lostYou did not slip awaybut were ripped from meYou will say I was disdainfuland you are rightbut I never meant for you to goI was upset – that’s allI wish I could take away the painI’m so sorry that I hurt youThe two men…

And I Love How You Wear That Dress

(A Utopian Tale from Belltown) I. Light His name is Rain in the Desert. I am Underneath All. He lived on top of one of the many hills in the city. I lived on the outskirts, trying to make a home. At first all I had was a picture or two; that’s how I first…

Women’s Rooms V2

Women’s Rooms  that is a long complicated subject. red room, blue room that room was a sanctuary this room is a prison Each of us have our own room,  placed within the vastness  of the house. Patterns and behaviors  sleepiness, fighting to keep  our eyes open, as though we could  fall asleep instantaneously  of course …

Shi Shi Beach

He climbs the cliff side clinging toroots and rocks and I tooascend withsolitary faithbeside me, he a few stepsabove, sittingon the ledgewaiting, to build me a mansionof tent sizedproportionsabove us the pinesshine. There is no time beyond this spellas dirt cakes my hands, buriesbeneath my nails,all iswet in this forest of rainclouds drapingeverything blueand green,…

Celebration of Immunity, Exposure and the Tempering of My Love with Fire

The water is still, the breeze cool within the sun’s warmth watching them traipse by displaying physical and energetic form in a loving embrace of her body so circular, smooth like the petal of the flower picked a thousand times in my daughter’s liquid hands appreciation far beyond desire, her nearness to perfection brushes my…

What If

What if it’s all a lie everything I ever hoped for, wanted my belief in the higher beauty sweetness that makes you want to cry What if that is something that humans cannot be or understand because we are lost to ourselves and even when we try we are still lost to ourselves This lack…

Grave Songs

Today I wandered among acres of tombs embraced by the spirits of the dead Do not be sad my dear lady rise from that seat head draped above my grave granite, marble, cast bronze statues rising majestically from the damp earth whisper to me Do not be sad my dear lady rise from that seat…