This Changes Everything

We did not go to the mountain to find love, we went to die to our past selves and claim our rightful place on the earth. We went to bury our limited beliefs and settle business with our ancestors.   To occupy our bodies as warriors and to strike out toward our...

Flux and Reflux

The ebbs and flows of our love keep me spinning and swimming toward some solid ground. In search of this land, I peer both inside myself: deep into the marrow of my bones, the height of my full upright posture, the ever-present beating of my heart. And I peer also...

Cosmic Stars

The light that pours forth here within and between us cannot stay here. It is destined to keep expanding outward beyond this cob-walled house through the cold moist autumn New England full-moon night, past the foggy fields thick with brightly colored trees amidst the...

Dancing on a Tightrope

The delicacy of the melody whispers of what might have been and also what still can become. Loving you is like dancing on a tightrope above all  my previous knowings. Terrifying in scale, exhilarating in scope, emergent in balance and imbalance, marked by the...

On Beauty

Beauty is this moment – the sunlight rippling forever forward iridescent in its origins cascading from the sun at the center of our galaxy across deep time to meet me here  through the nexus of my perception absorbed by my thirsty skin  and reflected...