Poems – The Dynamics of Groove

Intervals

Can I just give a shout out to my interval training app? ✔️free ✔️convenient (since it’s on your phone and who even DOESN’T have a phone on them these days?!) ✔️keeps you honest ✔️customizable ✔️tracks your progress ✔️discreet (not that it matters when under stay-at-home orders 😂 😭) ✔️gives you “partial credit” when you do…

Music To Chill Out To

I have been working on these immersive playlists for Koa House and my lomi lomi sessions. They are sort of these cross genre aural journeys that combine Hawaiian chant, slack key, instrumental guitar, shoegaze, ambient, nature sounds, binaural recordings and more. It came out of sessions I’ve had with clients where I noticed music and…

An assemblage of aha moments

I feel compelled to write/share. Possibly it’s being stuck at home. Possibly it’s that the baby is now old enough where I have time to have aha moments. Each time I write it feels as though sneaking a message under the nose of my captors. We don’t have long. Because of that, I’m just going…

#25

re birth re emergence i see you have taken the form of the rabbits outside and the cormorant outside also seems familiar a goose held my gave a little longer than was comfortable the other day a deer walked on my path a hawk swooped in front of our car i hear the tapping of…

#24

the biting air spews from my mouth like lava no one look at me i will look at no one i cast my eyes askew down not meeting another it would prove to be fatal the onlooker sees a glimpse of me in the shadows they depart they shrink i walk through i will not…

#20

time on my hands got plans no. sound of rain against my window pain is slowly, slowly driving me insane i’m going down my whole world’s turning upside down sleep don’t come easy please believe me today everything’s going wrong yesterday was golden tomorrow will it be better? i can’t stop these tears from falling…

#23

instal to be in a state of stability also refers to lukewarm sea water that has a refreshing quality opposite would be exstal, which has to do more with questioning your existential position enfix when you try to fix or adjust something but it’s not quite done to be half-finished also when you…

#22

soft new hands eyes that dance and fix their gaze i’m not sure what to call you what do i have to give you? will you enjoy the things i do or find them embarrassing? you have a waddle-kind-of run it’s like the ducks you enjoy pointing at i’m not sure if i’m too much…

#21

we use koa wood to build our space for strength and glass like smooth water tinted aquamarine for transparency our garden rooted in place by the gifts we wish to give our hearts created the foundation the scaffolding rises higher than we can imagine our dreams like an open window to the sky our vision…

#19

my left shoulder linked me to the world as one pivotal point connecting my intuition to reality it allowed me to extend my hand easily and then it was hit and then this left shoulder froze up and then it didn’t want to move any more and it rebelled against any kind of movement…