My Last Five Years Spent Living in the Shadow of the Palace of Futility. {poetry}
25 years later and all of the ashes have been consumed, we have stayed hungry, we have grown old, have wasted our lives speaking of hope
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I Dare Not. {poetry}
I dare not remember… that life is but a winding path
and the more we grapple and torment over its supposed 'hold', the more it digs in.
The Longing. {poetry}
Less surrender is in the longing, as it is to be revived
and in this cave of languish, a final stumble
becomes far more than a dusty heart can bear
The Diver. {poetry}
Your existence -- like any that walk, that live, that breathe, that dive -- an echo of the only, 'it'-self. Not separate from the storm.
Huntress of the Holy Sound. {poetry}
Come home to the river
lay your body down
give the bones
of the past and future
back to this holy ground.
Sit here by the water
listen to her song...
To the Men in the Room: A Poem About Privilege. {poetry}
Men, take this as a lesson, what you can do with your privilege: Don’t help those who are falling do what they can do for themselves, but support them.
Pleading Love. {poetry}
Flashing thoughts make you look twice into the distance...
Even your restlessness is my love knocking,
hoping you’ll invite me in.
Make a Woman Come for Once. {poetry}
Shame on the society that... shrieks at breastfeeding,
Turns away and makes the woman feel as though she is to blame.
Sunday Dance Tribe. {poetry}
I dance over their bones
like Shiva
pulverizing their remains
until what is left
turns back into soil,
from which I resurrect myself.
In the Wilderness. {poetry}
I felt like a hooded child
in the wilderness
who’d thought she could entreat wolves
I have never forgotten this
little as it was:
the shame...
