January entered like a knife.Cutting deeply.Drawing blood.Unexpected.Still…in shock. Has it always been like this?The last few Januarys I can remember… Perhaps January arrives in violent chaosWhile we seek stillness and new beginnings.Perhaps to awaken us.Perhaps to galvanize.To let us know we must fightIf we want our dreams to survive. Coughing. Wheezing.Bleeding. Sneezing.Licking wounds.Tending to the... Continue Reading →
Hunter’s Moon.The light, betrayed.Snake in the grass.The wolf that strayed.Scorpion’s tail,Swirling round.Churning, sweeping,Unearthing ground.Digging, dredging,Stirring things up.Rather than sipping,Shatters the cup.I see it, I feel it,The barb in my breast.I hear then from spirit,The words – “Let it rest.”It calls me, my healing,A salve like the sea.Washes over and whispersA calm, “Let it be.”
Desert hills rising,Like beacons.Wide open spaces.Nowhere to hide.Lizards sunning scaly skin,Like mine after all these years…Skitter away,With a sudden start.The fall of my feet,Upsetting the balance. With each arid breeze,The landscape is forever changed.The grains of sand,Displaced.The Princess and the Pea.You feel it…Before you know it…But it is happ’ning all the while.What is leftThrives in... Continue Reading →
Soliloquy on Imperfectionism 