standing 

first touch of water is shocking it’s colder than you think  it’s going to be but you’re held and in that warmth throughout your bones  your skin muscles marrow consuming you to the core at the same time as  the surface shiver jolts you awake teeth chattering  and yet you feel warm inside though you…

the place of hidden echoes

there’s a place few know about it’s a special place where sound  echoes into forever it gets etched into time it’s a place where you can shout at the top of your lungs you can tell the world anything in this place and voice reverberates across land across water it echoes and barks back at…

moving like a cloud

imagine if you could move through the world with no fear  no hesitation  that every encounter made you stronger more nimble imagine if you didn’t worry about what people say or what they think or if you’re pleasing someone  imagine if you recognized parts you didn’t like about yourself and they disappeared that they were…

storm

you underestimate us you think you know  but you don’t know you get over-confident but we stay working  stay building  you try to trick us make us think we’re not capable  that we have no choice  that we will be ruled by fear and hate but we are not we know how to survive  we…

simple things

this is a poem for simple things like counting to 10 or finding a penny it’s about alarm clocks and tissue paper it’s about your favorite bag or finding an old receipt it’s about tripping over a stick that is not very big and laughing at that it’s about the glitter that some sidewalks have…

favorite song

favorite song comes on  static electricity  and the people that know say yes hands outstretched to the sky lights turn to blue flash to magenta now’s the time for your best dance moves or sometimes you just sit back and smile arms laced in back of your head close your eyes nod to the beat…

the twelve paintings

The day after the rain stopped, the girl came upon a kind of cave. It was a makeshift shelter built from the natural deepening of the rock. There were twelve paintings or groupings of markings inside.  It was evening and the light from the moon was the only way she could see inside. Tracing her…

water whisperers

i know people who whisper to water who by lake sides and giant pools trickling streams and expansive oceans lean into the water’s edge  and you see them skipping smooth stones you see them walking endlessly  on the shore along the banks where sand and dirt and rock meet water who stop to look out…

a million sacred spaces for every 100 feet

there are a million sacred spaces  in the span of 100 feet and each step you take is setting a foot  on one  they are invisible and each is very precise because there are many different kinds of ways the world in which we live can be sacred some are very small so small that…

fog moves in the hills

the fog  misty sits in the hills low covering the ground and grey cloud so soft transparent put your hand through it but could never hold onto it dark green grasses  reach up when the clouds drift low and sometimes the way the moon shines as the wind moves looks like a silent song where…