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
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Gathering
I’m eighteen and I’m standing in the doorway of your house And you are telling me it’s just a phase Couched in your scorn is implied meaning That I am wrong to claim this part of me as identity And soon I will realize it I’m not surprised to hear this from you I didn’t… Continue reading Gathering
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
A Lantern
Hours after you leave, I sit still I feel it coming over me like a moonrise This emotion that makes its home in me For a little while, all at once Creating the tides of my heart Coming and going This feeling wants you It longs, it calls It forms words that lead nowhere Urging… Continue reading A Lantern
Instruments of the Universe
I was younger than you when my father died In the mirror I am surprised by my own hands Stronger and older than I expect Sinking into your shoulders as you tell me this I grasp you tighter By pulling your body into mine I will make you my father In the surge Of some… Continue reading Instruments of the Universe
Queen of Elves 