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Let Nature Be. {poetry}

Let nature be the wisdom you seek She will ask nothing from you But if you sink into the dust she will reveal things in the stillness

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Fleeting & Flaming. {poetry}

Pleasures of the body are as fleeting as the body itself when I am not in inner agreement.

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A Prayer to Baba Yaga, the Great-Grandmother of European Magic. {poetry}

You were the first subjugation of our modern culture Made small by the great big church who sought only to make powerful women shrink And teach them to worship only small men they held up as great We pray to you and for you, oh great-grandmother

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Every Woman You Have Ever Been. {poetry}

every woman you have ever been knows your battle is no fable no more suppressing or doubting or hiding in safe places stand under the stars

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When Saturn Killed Pluto: Today I Approached Myself Cautiously. {poetry}

And it was good but kinda weird A little lonely To be without her in the world So today I thought maybe I would talk to her again

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Layers. {spoken word poetry}

It is not a part of you that was there when you felt love as a newborn, before your dreams were torn by stranger’s scorn. Layers -- they are not a part of you.

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The Other Side. {poetry}

White Men play a hellish game mutually indebted in shame With the shit they get on each other they build walls of silence

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Here We Remember: The Song of Myself. {poetry}

I feared the song of myself like the touch of a snake, and it was the slipping out of one skin into another, first raw, then the smoothness of new skin.