Invocations, Love Letters, Perlocutionary Acts

Category: Poems

  • Everywhere a Ceremony: Poems on Rituals

    Everywhere a Ceremony: Poems on Rituals

    ~ On a bathroom floor that is not my own, a silent wail– face red, split open like the drought of the earth drinking rain, veins of my neck and arms awakened pythons, water breaths through parted lips, open palms to sky I send: “All of me is aching,” and, “How do I manage this…

  • Lion’s Gate Poems ’22: Love & Presence

    Lion’s Gate Poems ’22: Love & Presence

    I am a witness of the nest shared by two eagles, about 9 miles from our apartment. A river is heard collecting mineral, wing, song, seed. I am of this concoction of creative matter, onlooker and looked-upon, where “active” and “still” become one, the longer you see. A lover alongside my lover, a lover alongside…

  • Pulled Into The Sky By My Feet: Poems in July

    Pulled Into The Sky By My Feet: Poems in July

    ~make room for your desire, to dance and be danced,by dancing.~For Lift OffI loosen my grip on the rope of things.I pull my shoulder blades together, curtains drawn for morning sun. I rest my eyes where earth meets sky,and sing all of it a love song. Also For Lift OffUnwind the thread with your fingertips,…