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I’ll take you with me when I go We’ll go places I didn’t know… Existed in the world. The sky will reach so high The stars will shine so bright The best part is… You’ll always be in my sight. Sometimes it will get old Learning things I haven’t been […]

This is what I know

Living always at the edge of the mystery where the curious trails pull off toward the horizon of discovery— the affirming arrival home, from a question. Ebb and flow of those inward tides living at the edge of the mysterious tera incognita, onwards until we find ourselves at home amidst […]

The Greatest Mystery

I watched her as she danced through the parameters of her boundaries, etching out her elegant, circular, turf and for a moment I imagined she could transport us to a dimension, not tethered to chronology suspending us together in this interstitial space, immune to the aches, or benefits, of change. […]

~the dance of the clock~

What did it mean? To be a tom-boy seemed A complement That was something A girl like me Might aspire to, who Ran through woods, Mostly barefoot—but often In my twirling dress. Paradoxically, Was the inner drive that hummed within my little heart to be found small— for smallness meant […]

Sequoia

If I had been first, not last And all that lay before The past held the same Rosy optimism of hope Unmarred? And memories were unaccumulated — Like journal pages white, No pain or diminished expectations In sight. But all these moments instead Litter the hills like haunted houses Rising […]

Keeper of the Second Watch

Let’s talk, fear logistics You shadow creature lurking just past the point the light touches, Making molehills and pebbles appear like mountains and peaks — Disproportionate to the reality of this moment, most magnified as day becomes night and night becomes day—shadows stretching in size in the moment of transition. […]

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