Mary Oliver goes to the woods And I go to my garden Epiphanies bloom like flowers I inhale aromatics Taste parsley and mint Coriander and sage Make herbal teas from the Rosella Lemon balm And thyme Bundles of chives, Kale Bok choy Choy sum And the common lettuce Are added to my breakfast I pluck […]
I look at my toes and see my brothers The face in the mirror resembles my mothers Shadows flick along the ground above a hawk is circling The person who lives And loves in this world Is just a memory walking The intensity of this life sometimes…you can call it hard – or you can […]
Iwho have often hid in the midst of noiseLaughterTurning aside the more penetrating gazeWith a wall of clever wordsIWho thought the cocoon only produced butterfliesTurns outPhoenix and dragonsRise on wings of silencefrom jagged tooth wombs And the birth means annihilation To the bearer She died I was born And now I wear the scars that […]
I must learn Not to let them loose These words inside build up Spill over It’s difficult If I let them run I am empty and peaceful But then Somethings should stay within Even though they eat With sharp teeth And go round and round When you have so many words You have to be […]
The constriction of abiding In a worn out hide Because unlike the snake I never took to scales My rebalancing Occurs On the inside We come into life Poured into a tiny vessel And identify with a face A body That is pure transformation A reflection greets the day We say Ahh Here she is […]
I thought it was grief Sadness It felt so heavy Important I sat with it for awhile Beneath morning stars Salt water Began to trickle Such was the pressure building This weight in my chest Crushing My heart flipped behind my ribs a landed fish trying to make sense of oxygen From out in the […]
There is a force Alive and rampant A feeling becomes thought And the thoughts build Looking for a container The vessel becomes full Words Overflow on the page They flood and spread Flow and ebb Burst and give over What was within For a moment replete The energy recedes And the human breathes But creation […]
Green tree leaves clean and shining A diamond droplet suspended Blue sky within Upside down It splashes And the sky hits the ground My shoe walks over it Thinking That’s quite profound Photo from a drone shot out west of Eulo on a trip last year. The perspective from higher up never fails to lift […]
Land Isn’t dirt It is something higher It holds It grows It breathes It covers itself in tapestries of wildflowers And allows the breeze to carry the seeds It is free and travels in dust Falls in love And covers my jacket My hands Fills the lines beside my eyes One day it will find […]
Sometimes it hurts So you have to shift the hurt To the left hand And keep writing Because the right hand Is the dominant one After all
