The trees are blooming. Apple, cherry, plum… Petals are fluttering everywhere, over lawns, sidewalks, porches, tripping over themselves as they loop pinwheels across pavement with fickle springtime breezes. It is a strange time to be alive. Bearing witness to such a glorious spring marks a divine touch. The beauty is grounding me; the flowers haveContinue reading “spring blossoms/COVID-19”
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Hummingbird
Little hummingbird at the feeder, What’s your time? What’s your meter? How do you move so fast and so slow? How do you know the things you know? It seems I’m just a slave to beauty… Or at least lead by the nose by beauty… Tall lighthouse, spiral stairs inside your door I think I’veContinue reading “Hummingbird”
Word Power
“For women, then, poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into idea, then into more tangible action.” -Audre Lorde, (1985) I went to a poetryContinue reading “Word Power”
