shut up and dance! You, there! You, there, with your belly full of stars: can you see the path, the link, the umbilical cord between you and me made of lightning bugs – yellow flies – pieces of stars shattered by baby Thunderbirds…
Category: Official Marathon Announcement
Crooked shack on a snowy plain near mountains
More of the same fields rise when driving past. Skim over the ancient junk piles, measures of time and waste from the rural professor, the ubiquitous poverty of ideas about how to clean this abandonment and romance. Romance is not actually happening here or anywhere….
Hour two
Your kiss like sweet sangria— slowly loosing its red to my tongue. lingers on my tongue. my tongue wants more.
Hour one.
Earth— your tongue— flowers bloom Fire— your body— engulfs me Water— your kisses— quench my thirst Wind— your touch— makes me feel
Hour 2: Stirrings
low earthworm stirrings given wings to take them up pay for heaven’s sake
Concerning Expression
Concerning expression What cannot be expressed by taboo cannot be expressed by people in crisp, white suburban houses. What else cannot be expressed is like that which animals and babies cannot express. What exists in ticket lines and ATM transfers. Drug stores and allergy medicine….
Before the End
He is an earthy fool of morning— makes the uphill trek of five leagues and gathers anemones. He is a fiery child of dusk— arrives in the quietness beyond fatigue and knocks at the door. She is a flighty girl of night— wears…
September
September I remember September, and those heady days of 1971 – ok, vaguely – before my sister was born and the world was mine alone. Earth, Wind, and Fire – those horns always those horns brought the sun on my skin, my braids,…
The Gardener
The Gardener Unprepared and precious, I lift them out with two hands. I find in the dirt of my new garden decrepit plastic whiffle balls, cracked open like an eggshell on one side where nothing has escaped, empty from inception, and chunk pieces of…
and so it begins….
Excited to be doing my third full marathon. I made so many friends through the last two years and hope to make a few more. The support offered here has led to my being ready to really put myself out there. Can’t wait to see…