End this wandering

End this wandering, this searching for my people, this longing to share the joy of love. My heart is still, the leaves flutter around it, and there is welcome space for my people to enter in.

Dedication to the effortless fall

Dedication to the effortless fall, the one that springs from gentle friendship with gravity. Persistence in relentless listening, the whisper touch of breath on inner skin. Fierce loyalty to unspecific kinships, strangers met with courageous smiles. Passion shared in...

Rage disguised as love

Rage disguised as love is toxic poison, a slow trickle of acquiescence that builds in the gut and leaves no room for light. It hides gently in the simmer of a hundred thousand cooking pots, the quiet scratching of a million brooms. It seeps into the broth; brooms...

Breathtaking in gracious postures

Breathtaking in gracious postures, she dances to invoke light, blistering heat traversing an illusion of gentleness, hard muscles softened by decades of dedication. She dances to invoke the many faces of love, wide smiles and deep torments, birthing fresh...

The soft secret

The soft secret to a woman’s power is not in riding the wild stallion. Mare and mate run like wind, eat from the belly of the earth, nuzzle their foals … but she learns to be ridden, to have his deep hoofprints etched into her flanks, to hear his wild...

This brittle cup

This brittle cup becomes softened by the wine, allowing the goblet to be tossed from hand to hand, passed through the carousing hordes to the groom. Nobility disguised in common garb, he sits, yearning, in a circle of comrades, laughing with delight as the tankard...