Refuge
A sweet friend and I held an intimate grief and healing circle last night. When I announced it, I received so many responses acknowledging my gift to community, as if I were doing something noble. The truth is, I did…
I’m Sorry, Please Forgive Me
It is a hard day to be a citizen of the US. I wonder if this is what it feels like to be the family member of a mass shooter. To love the country that is the root of so…
Unforbidding
I thought that speaking truth,
that unforbidding the forbidden would
ease the hard pull of craving…
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La Bruja Maldita
She whispers in my ear
You’re never going to be loved
La Bruja Maldita habla
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I am Never
I mean NEVER
out of control in public and
I have a part that disdains people who do.
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Anemic
I am not gushing out the blood of my abuse.
The compound fractures of my childhood
aligned,
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Emotional Burnout
I am looking from behind my eyes,
my physicality a veil I watch through clearly.
The skin of my eyes a barricade
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I am from
I am from the dog-eat-dog family where
the youngest was not the baby but
the sin eater
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Even This
A new year is coming.
We thought, back then,
by now,
…
This Red String
There is a red string that
Separates
This land
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A Koan for a Koan
Who Am I?
I am the sound of one hand clapping
I am the one hand
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I Am the Desert Flower
Violence on the screen
in sharp contrast
to the sharpened senses,
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