Words Try to Rescue: Remembering Adam. {poetry}
Poetry is both conduit and container of every emotion. It's almost as if enough words can make a kind of sense from a terrible loss. It can't.
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Judgment Days: Parental Pandemicostal Prayer. {poetry}
Guide us as we seek to elevate our responses from judgment into discernment during these times that try parents’ souls.
We Are The Capables: Words of Resilience for the Orphaned. {poetry}
Not capable. Not able. Not reliable. Not acceptable. I cupped my hands over my ears. Still, the mocking continued. Mocking words.
Free the Wild Beast Inside You. {poetry}
The beast knows that you are a divine being of the earth, sea, and sky... Know this: You can trust this wild creature within.
Absinthe: Lost In Our Own Green Dreams. {poetry}
This is where the green fairy sleeps. Gentle, transparent, inconstant as a gleam. She sleeps behind the curtain of velvet dreams.
Poem Is in the Poet’s Eye. {poetry}
Any aspect of life, death and beyond -- anything observable and describable -- contains or is a poem to me. Which is to say 'everything'.
Befriending Anxiety. {poetry}
The uncertainty of future events, loneliness, homesickness and intrusive thoughts compelled me to befriend anxiety.
Violation Normalized. {poetry}
My body changed, what to do? Perhaps I dared to mention this? Innocent young girl hoping for help, so very confused, mother in panic.
Duende of Grief: When We Roamed as Cathars. {poetry}
And we broke bread... you stood and raised your glass to 'mes amis', whom I had known for centuries, when we had roamed the hills as Cathars.
My Home Is the River. {poetry}
"May there be no hurdles," I pray. "May my home find its way. May it reach its destination," I chant an incantation. "Om Namah Shivaya."