Gold light streams at a low angle through the trees Heavy on my eyelids as if I am dazed Each falling leaf a glowing yellow page breathing A story we’ve been telling all our lives Your voice takes me back through the channel A deep ocean river of time flowing forever From your impossibly green… Continue reading The Back Steps
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Change
Today I noticed our old path Where we used to walk after school In the thin gray light of winter days Grown sparse and strange The branches spindly The grasses threadbare Even the shadows were shadows Of their former selves No longer holding unknown entities Antagonists of our inner narratives But simply places Where light… Continue reading Change
Being
The ground is warm and wet against my back Meadow grasses folding softly around me My hair threading through them, becoming part of the world Cicadas carry this rendering on their ceaseless song A heavy buzz that you were not able to hear White noise turned golden with the summer sun A billion tender green… Continue reading Being
My Love is a Planet
fingers sinking feeling squishing I gather the springy coils of your curls and my palm remembers moss damp organic spongy thick yielding softly sapling sighing smushing my face into yours breathing you in my nose remembers the wholeness of your body and your vines are twining round me so now my branches grow in spirals… Continue reading My Love is a Planet
The Dream
In the dream my brother tells me Love is All A revelation unfolds in my chest A memory made new clothed in his voice We are crossing a river that carves Through a honey-colored canyon Of striated sun-drenched stone A black goat stands in the shallows and watches As I gather up the layers of… Continue reading The Dream
Nostalgia
Summer’s languishing end Makes me a child again I have just become aware Of this thing called Time I am realizing suddenly That Forever is so brief That life is coming to claim me The hours are no longer mine My feet are cold standing On the sun-drenched asphalt My hands are dirty clutching A… Continue reading Nostalgia
The Poem
There was a poem on my bedroom wall It was about outer space and being in love Erotic in the way that only metaphors can be I would read it in a rush Holding my breath until the last line And then I would read it again Because it was a perfect thing And as… Continue reading The Poem
Hooking up with your Ex
When you get up out of the bed I feel my body suggesting that this hurts That we are being abandoned So I snuggle up with it And remind it Of all the little pleasures of our routine The way we spend our mornings alone My body and I There will be deep breaths There… Continue reading Hooking up with your Ex
Siren Song
Her body is a siren song You are led into an ocean of unknowing Within, within So everyone that has ever loved her Found themselves in over their heads Impossible to cling to her For she is water Changeable, tempest-tossed The seaweed of her hair around your throat She coats you with pearls And you… Continue reading Siren Song
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
Queen of Elves 