Second Chances

you can stumble through life never noticing the voice of your own muse, your bodyโ€™s intuition, your connection to all things great and small you can ignore how they call to you never confronting how you avoid vulnerability through attachment to old wounds or you can...

Before You Write

Before you begin with both eagerness and anxiety rolling through your veins Take a moment to consider the seat holding you how easily you contour to its shape taking for granted you will be held until your task is done Before you make a mark pick up the paper feel its...

Shrine to the Ambivalent Goddess

Cast of Sagrado Corazรณn: The fiery sacred heart Image of Dove in Flight: The letter A clutched in its beak Creating PeAce  From W_R Wooden Rosary: Small enough to hide in a fist Powerful enough to ward off soulless lovers Gilded Portrait of...

Kachina Patriarch

I once walked atop a butte each footstep greeted by a cloud of red dust the scent of desert sage The pain of us lost in relief โ€” Canyon de Chelly in the near distance Arches another day soon Mesa Verde โ€” A promise to our shared forgetting: my travelogue and a sand...

Finding My Religion

That summer we pretended we were orphans, two sisters torn apart by misfortune, reunited by happenstance with only Earth  to parent us.ย  Hair matted thick from days of hill country winds and no one to make us bathe, we decided on a movie star archaeologist,...

How She Regained Her Soul

The heart was the last to go but left a clue where to find her: a smooth river rock heavy in my chest. I knew long before โ€” an image had relayed the nature of her plea โ€” a vision of us together feeling the wind breathe the trees. For so long I resisted the urge...

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