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...

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...

The Joy of Burnout

Iโ€™ve returned to blogging and publishing after a 3-year hiatus. My break was unexpected. In December 2018, I completed a weekly, year-long online project devoted to recovery from sexual trauma. I began 2019 diligently turning this material into a book. I was...

Road Closed: You’re Excused from Work Today

When you encounter a sign that says Road Closed decide you have been excused from work. Take a U-turn, go back home. Pour yourself a tall glass. Take a book of poetry to the porch or balcony. If anyone asks, the road was closed. Next day take the same road, encounter...

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