Most days I’m Glinda a sparkly witch, glittering goodness. See me, bubble bound smiling, serene. See me gliding around granting wishes. Not one hair out of place every sequin sewn tight, my crown is white, I am gauze behind the filtered lens of your projections. Unknown to most however, I squirm, seethe green in too-tight … Continue reading Bubble Bound
A Thousand Miles
The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. The argument today begins with the decision to step at all. Millions of brain cells, micro moments, a terrible effort to break inertia, breathe and breathe again, lift an arm a leg, an eyelid. Some days simply unclenching leaves you drained enough to fall … Continue reading A Thousand Miles
Adrift
NapoWriMo Day 6 These paper boats of mine are meant to dance on the ripples of hours and not to reach any destination. -Tagore These days I use fewer paper maps. Watch at the window instead for boats at sea, make mountains of molehills, too much emptiness to mine in this idle mind, and here … Continue reading Adrift
Bigfoot Likes to Knit
We can’t prove this, but signs are there. The ravine along Devil’s Backbone road, where nobody wants to go, even in broad daylight, is marked by the rare extra large footprint, a musk of decay and wet wool. Years ago, a boy took a polaroid from up on the road. “It started to run when … Continue reading Bigfoot Likes to Knit
Prompted
Napo Day 4 1.Follow the truck with the red mud flaps 2. the man with the brown beard, the tattered flag. 3.Decide he may not be your enemy, so wave 4.as you pass. Receive his obscene gesture in return. 5. Allow many tiny needle stings to inundate 6.your being as if swimming in a barrel … Continue reading Prompted
Glosa #1
The new root of the fern is the part you eat in famine. Harsh words are spoken, but they’re not the ones that make you turn. Where the muscle’s smooth. That’s where it doesn’t fray. The hard part is what comes easy. The hard part isn’t hard. From The Hard Part by Clare Jones Our … Continue reading Glosa #1
Afterwinter
NapoWriMo Day 2 2022 birds pass above us at twilight & another in-between shifts a season these migrations melt us Earth decides its nudges its promises its takebacks in snowy returns & tee-shirts come out too soon our arms weary from re-donning sweaters that still carry February's funk and firesmoke reach for broken branches on … Continue reading Afterwinter
Lightning
NapoWriMo 2022 Day 1 They look like purple clouds, depending on the light. Floating just below the surface of my skin, at my wrists, on my feet, crucifixion-like bruises that my dermatologist reports may never fade. These are only the scars you’d see as many more hide under my cottons and wools. I turn for … Continue reading Lightning
Ars Poetica; Reflection on NaPoWriMo With Gratitude
In the lilting back and forth rhythms the mothers voice, the rhyme I heard coming before it crossed her lips The gameness, the puzzle, the tingle It brings, comfort, companionship, Laughter in a lonely world. I fall asleep to it, awaken to it Ramble with it, rumble. Lines Spooling on a page, slim or fat … Continue reading Ars Poetica; Reflection on NaPoWriMo With Gratitude
Day 30 Here
If you ride this wind to blue waters stand there. Dip your toes. Squeeze your eyes shut. Say “here” then say it again. We’ve heard it before but I’ll say it again: a life can blow right through you if you don’t stop on your way from here to there to feel all the the … Continue reading Day 30 Here
Early Morning Poems 