And then I wonder what life feels like on the day you die, if its different, more beautiful; if things make more sense as life loses its heavines, like you’re dressed in a cape of calm and serenity to highlight the last hours you will ever walk on earth, if maybe trees seem to be [...]
I went for a walk in the forest today.
I’ve walked many forest floors but never in this skin, never as I am today. I could say that something is different but I know the only difference is me. I understand clearly that I have nothing to give. Nothing that I could ever possibly do would benefit [...]
Modesty is a dress I wear on the night of this full moon…
Letter From Anonymous:
“When I met your friend at (location not mentioned to protect identity of actual characters), he lightly patted me on the shoulder. Who does that? I almost laughed, I almost let my tongue free. It was insulting, and let me know that he is probably rich, definitely condescending, probably has a superiority [...]
4th Step
I know why you wear your glasses to bed: you’re afraid you wont see what’s coming when you’re asleep, that if you open your eyes and have a moment to react you may react wrongly because you cant see…I know this…I watch you sleeping, I see those eyes moving in the space on your [...]
Confessions of a Maybe Palm Tree
I was on an early morning run heading west in pursuit of the edge of our east bay landscape, the Oakland waterfront. It was dark when I reached the docks, and I paused but never stopped breathing as I stood upon a wooden mound where I gently began to embrace [...]
And then I wonder what life feels like on the day you die, if its different, more beautiful; if things make more sense as life loses its heavines, like you’re dressed in a cape of calm and serenity to highlight the last hours you will ever walk on earth, if maybe trees seem to be [...]
Dear Journey:
CONFESSION (of the sexual kind)
I pull them in unintentionally and they become arrested, prisoners pulled from the sheets and into the wind, and they look towards me for answers, security, protection: I am not your goddess. I wasn’t meant to be seen in soft lights, the glow I manifest as I step is not [...]
Where is the lesson in this?
Honesty.
I acted wrongly and perpetuated bastard energies. Time has asked me to stop yet now the mess is mercury hot, it begs to be removed from the nearness of the sun.
Run away tiny coyote! How many more forest friends will you consume before you belch the bones of your rancid ways?
Rain [...]