Our group of 14 walk toward the canvas mound.Nearby birch branches burn heat into sacred stones, the air suffused with cedar and sage as the elder smudges the opening.Here now, after 8 years of marriage, I am a single mother. I alone. Two young angels- their hearts and the life they carry here echo inContinue reading “Inipi”
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Sorrow Soars
Sorrow has always flown. Deep into the places inside us. Where breath halts, where the brain clenches, the gut hollows into a dry riverbed. Sorrow breaks through there beating its immense wings against the resistance of our bodies. Because sorrow needs to land in our soul.
The Armaments of Passion
The lover will say it is you you have done this before tearing apart stonewalling tears like acid and the tantruming heart It is not. It is not you any more than it is them Jealousy, wantoness- the armaments of passion The stranger tools of love, like peacetime armies We had failed before, and hereContinue reading “The Armaments of Passion”
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