Smooth rocks with flat backs, stacked one on top of the other. I enjoy the simplicity of balancing the contrasting colors together to create a tower of evenness where the weight of one side matches the other so they can live in harmony, one on top of the other without toppling over. Sometimes when you […]
The Magic Of Mushrooms
A fresh crop of mushrooms grew right where her tears fell. With imperative love they responded to the salt of her watery eyes, the pain disrupting every cell of her being. She’d been in the same spot only 24 hours earlier and came back to cry again on the wooden stoop by the side of […]
Rubber Necking
How do you go from pedal pressed hard to the floor Zero to All in less than 10 days To pumping the brakes To a hard stop without crashing through the windshield Heart splayed out on the pavement 2500 little pieces of rust colored red each one indecipherable from the next Almost impossible to put […]
No Right Turn
Miles and miles of road to travel. And no right turns. I’m circling the block and every time I see point A I feel as though I’ve been here before. When I ride forward and arrive at point B, it feels familiar too. I open up to the wind, with the sun glimmering off the […]
A Clean Cut
The doctor examined the tip of her finger cut straight through by her kitchen knife. “This is a clean cut”. He explained it was a good thing. And he’d be able to re-attach the tip with stitches and she would even have feeling in her finger again after some time. “It’ll be black and blue […]
The Courage Of Northern Plants
Plants in the North hold an incredible courage; ones of the South don’t. Every spring season they peek their small buds out as the sun shines his presence brighter and warmer each day. They grow in the warmth and love. Always aware, the end’s coming. For a short season the sun shares his love with […]
No More Color
Alcohol devastated First Nations because it takes away the color. The color of the earth, and connectedness to the plants, unfiltered, loving and enveloping. It didn’t hurt the white people because they were already numb. They already existed in black and white and were numb to the many intersecting spaces of black and white that […]
Life As A Shell Or A Nut
A commonly used phrase is ‘I’ll give this to you in a nutshell’. It’s meant to extricate the complexity of life. It’s something. A nutshell is empty. Maybe that’s the point of this cliche’. To leave things empty. Simplify it. It’s meaningless. Yet, the shell itself points to life. There was a nut there. It’s […]
Broken
Her pre-frontal cortex was broken. She wasn’t exactly sure when it happened. Maybe that soccer ball that hit her head at 10 years old. Or perhaps it was that one professional boxing match she had when she took a hook punch to the face and landed on the mat for 30 seconds until sniffing salts […]
Listening
Many years ago, I listened to, ‘All the Pretty Horses’ read by Brad Pitt it took me through a story in 12 hours with his voice guiding me through the narrative of fiction something to feel, evoke, settle into Today I started ‘There I Am’, read by the author; Ruthie Lindsey her own voice guiding […]