When the energy rises to my throat, I am met with fear. I’m surprised to discover it. It’s like that sometimes, the emotion lurking somewhere in my body, hesitant to make itself known. I can’t blame it; I used to be in the habit of rejecting what I felt automatically. My body doesn’t yet know… Continue reading Energy Work
Category: personal anecdotes
Star Child
At the time I could not comprehend– And would not until after the end– The wisdom of the choice you made: The way you left, the way you came. I’d been daily drinking from the well Of my lonely nihilistic hell, And I don’t know if I’d have ever seen That there are other ways… Continue reading Star Child
Soul Retrieval
There’s a moment in your bathroom when I feel myself become him, without even trying. I’m standing facing you, feasting my eyes on you, giggling with the kind of unbridled joy I have rarely experienced but which seems to be increasingly present in my life now, when I feel my shoulders broaden, my hips narrow,… Continue reading Soul Retrieval
A Little About the Author
When I was a small child, my mom’s nickname for me was Elf Queen. During that first period of my life (when I wasn’t voraciously reading) I was constantly creating and inventing characters and worlds, whether by drawing, writing, or becoming them. As young as five or six years old, after writing my first-ever story… Continue reading A Little About the Author
The River
In the shower the water rushes over my shoulders as it did earlier, when I sat in the bowl of a small waterfall and let the chill gush take my breath away. In the river, I crawled like a creature; I enticed my lover as a fairy might, arranging my body in pools of sunlight… Continue reading The River
LSD with a Lover
I’m watching you turn somersaults in my kitchen with quickly increasing agility. The muscles in your shoulders coil briefly as you place your weight in your hands before lowering your upper back smoothly to the floor. You take up most of the room, as you do in all the small rooms of this apartment, but… Continue reading LSD with a Lover
Queen of Elves 