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…

Seeking Lilith or I Found God but Couldn’t Keep Her

Listening only for a moment to soundsother than the pull of the tide over the sandy rocksemerging from the fiery waters of the sun like Lilith Why have I been cast down from my proper place?Strolling by they may see nothing or possibly the creative force two separate beings admiring themselves in the mirror stretching…

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…

Entering the Temple of the Deer

Step 1: The Conjuring Pen So still in the night I await your presence, curtains drawn, I peek between the cracks. Asleep or awake, I do not know which one. I hear your breathing; it nestles up to me on my pillow, this breath, allowing entrance into some private spot. Wanting you.    “For what…

Growth

I stole his flip flops and the last bit of wine in the bottom of the bottle so I could tip toe to the patio sit and watch the schools of fluffy white clouds swim slowly by occasionally providing a picture window for the soon to be full moon to peer from It is for…