Poetry
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CUNNING ENEMY
i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first…
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KARMIC TRANSITION
i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped…
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MORE WILL BE REVEALED
in your eyes is placed a power greater than all of their hoarded goldyour eyes are wormholes to a future…
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GLOBALIZE
before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred…
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ANDROGYNE
luscious and radiantly non-binaryyou emanate potent spiritual forces from your divine apothecary you writhe and transform our world with your…
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ALIEN BALLET
\ limbs extend, attenuate, and bendthe scars of guilt and shame are healed yet again we celebrate life and the…
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SONG OF SURRENDER
here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfectreckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to…
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BECOMING JOY
the buddhist teacher tich nhat hanh taught me to see that we are like cloudsforever evolving and changing from one…
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SUN DRAGON
her voice soars, amplifying the resonance of visceral blood memoriesechoes of primordial pleasure emerging to coat our writhing bodies in…
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NOTICING
my god is in the noticingnoticing the moment between when i start to breathe and when i feel the first…
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MEDITATION ON HUMILITY
its hard to be humble when the energy and adrenaline of an action are racing through my veinshard when my…
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VERSES for an UPRISING
collective grief and collective ragefreedom crushed, jailed and chainedwe rise in power saying all of their nameswe resist this…
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GRATITUDE
I am always looking for magicseeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation…
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GESTATION: diary of a shadow worker
I want to write about who I am becoming—and about what I am leaving behindI want to write about the…
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PROPHYLACTIC RESILIENCE: a COVID communique
so its official—we are now the epicenter of this global pandemicand we aren’t yet managing to even test everyone with…
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PLANETARY ASCENSION: a viral manifesto
this is not a drillcircumnavigates our globe in tandem with the relative scale of contemporary social dysfunction this is a…
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PERDIDO
I feel alone–so painfully alone… Lost in a fog of fear, profound remorse, and omnipresent anxiety… My mind has been…
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SACRED HIGH
living in luminous sobriety is its own sacred highwe must craft a healing revolution to sanctify our hearts and minds…
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TURBULENCE
In this moment, I am a hot mess of regret, anxiety, and desire With boundaries collapsed I don’t know how…
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BOUNDARIES
they are the distance at which i can safely love you and myself at the same time they are…
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TRYING NOT TO FALL
if you see me leave earlyor hesitate to make eye contactif i seem reticent to express too much affectionthat’s just…
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RIPPED ROYALTY
your strength is flexed and built out rawyour spirit is animated by zygotes of sacred cosmic lawsyou summon my passion…
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EROTIC AND PLATONIC
Our vibe is subtle, electric, and wildYour warmth is deeply attractive and your charms make me smile You are an…
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DIRTY MEDICINE
you activate my visions and animate my mindbut your hallucinogenic powers leave toxicity behind i reach for you out of…
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PHANTASMA
our eyes lock in the dark and i try to draw you inwe touch heart to heart, soul to soul,…
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CYLON CYPHER
we write in code, with data entombed, in tunnels of platinum and tunnels of goldmy river remolds the depths of…