i just awoke from a dream about youi was walking with phyllis owens and we were talking about you and grieving your passing frivolously, i noted how good we all still look on social mediayou, with all your crafted selfies, might have appreciated the moment upon awakening i turned from […]
your eyes entrance, ensnare, and inspireConjuring waves of ecstatic passion that rise up ever higheryour body is a talisman, a sacred interstellar vessel, and an erotic fireyour images sync with my lyrics allowing our reality to amp up and rewire sex is so potent, so visceral, and so elementalyou transfix […]
there is subterranean strength in your body and volcanic energy in your mindthis is a seismic cosmic moment when everything that happens is a sacred signwe craft an epitaph for this system etched in rage, blood, and pridei give in to my higher power and seek a creative serenity deep […]
we first met in the months before our present political moment was definedthe post-election but pre-inauguration days of shock, rage, and fear you caught my eye both physically and spirituallyyou were a presence and an energy that i wanted to know more closely your images captivate my mindthey inspire […]
I am proud of how i show up for life on the manic depressive spectrumi am proud of my creativity and empathy, and of my spiritual insights and practice i resist the dogma that calls all of this a disorderbecause when balanced, my neurodivergent mind is opened to inspiration that […]
light and sound become energized and fused into onewe see fractals in the moon and volcanic power in the sunpsychedelic synergy has transformed who we are and what we can becomewe project universal liberation as the cosmic project that is to be done i have learned that i do not […]
i am a vessel for sacred forces arising in a moment of unprecedented global perilwe must draw strength from our collective unconscious to resist a fascist menace that has grown ruthless, desperate, and feral i am anansi the spider weaving webs of wisdom, life, and lovei transmute psychic pain and […]
three sensuous bodies: three celestial auras–we aspire to cosmic connection to honor the rebels who came before us we crave dance floors so fierce that the reigning divas will come to adore us–we crave intimacy and emotional resonance over the addictive forces that long to control us this is […]
you inspire me with your mind, your loyalty, and your inner fireyour will to serve and resist makes me want to craft plans and conspire the beauty of your spirit provokes a confused state of desirethe intensity of your revolutionary intentions could be an albatross, or the force that takes […]
i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first compulsive sexual stimulation and fantasybut also a foundational addiction to the power of intellect and self will while my head branded me an atheist, my heart and soul kept me […]
i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped me choke up for protracted moments, but again and again the feelings pass and my mind clearsi wonder why i am not more ground down by this–why i am not […]
in your eyes is placed a power greater than all of their hoarded goldyour eyes are wormholes to a future of humility and grace so deeply rooted that its seeds will growwe build power and resilience to feed the richness of our soulswe have so many toxic patterns and toxic […]
before we had a globalized system, we had globalized energy:fires of wood or wax to which we made sacred offerings of rare shells, silver, or gold before we had a world economy or planetary pandemics, we drew life and sustenance from the same sun and moon we saw our […]
luscious and radiantly non-binaryyou emanate potent spiritual forces from your divine apothecary you writhe and transform our world with your gender-expansive spiritelevating our anthem of revolution so that spirits above and below can hear it androgyne angels fly amongst us–unleashing the forces that, in a coming explosive instant, will ignite […]
\ limbs extend, attenuate, and bendthe scars of guilt and shame are healed yet again we celebrate life and the powers arising from deep withinwe are a sex positive armada and our epic style is heaven sent this is an alien ballet pregnant with cosmic insightour bodies contort in alignment […]
here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfectreckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to transform i am decentering selfdismantling the illusion of my willful power to control the world around me this is my attempt at surrenderand her matrix of liberation is opening new […]
the buddhist teacher tich nhat hanh taught me to see that we are like cloudsforever evolving and changing from one state to anotheralways becoming but never, ever, simply becoming nothing i am filled with exuberance in this moment, witnessing the deepening roots of recovery in my lifewitnessing the sacred inspiration […]
her voice soars, amplifying the resonance of visceral blood memoriesechoes of primordial pleasure emerging to coat our writhing bodies in glistening sweatechoes of days gone by when a woman pleasuring herself in a shower would have felt dirty and unclean she is a sun dragona divine spirit channeling the reverberations […]
my god is in the noticingnoticing the moment between when i start to breathe and when i feel the first rush of air into my lungsnoticing the energy and magic that surrounds usevident in birds that flock and fungi who thrive on the toxins leached by other forms of lifenoticing […]
its hard to be humble when the energy and adrenaline of an action are racing through my veinshard when my brain’s potent dopamine clinic is flying high on overdrive its hard to be humble when visions of fractals or sacred geometry meet my eyesleaving me feeling particularly empowered to participate […]
collective grief and collective ragefreedom crushed, jailed and chainedwe rise in power saying all of their nameswe resist this toxic fascist plague we find joy in struggle and joy through our tearsacross our nation we rise to conquer fearpower quakes when our fires are revealedif they don’t concede we […]
I am always looking for magicseeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation of the dancer’s fierce extension I am grateful for all of these momentsgrateful for the magic of the moon and the sunI am grateful for the serenity of silence and […]
I want to write about who I am becoming—and about what I am leaving behindI want to write about the web we are weaving to save the air we are breathing with the power of our minds I am a shadow worker in gestation—seeing the cracks through which liberation comespouring […]
so its official—we are now the epicenter of this global pandemicand we aren’t yet managing to even test everyone with symptomsthis is all likely to get exponentially worse before it gets any betterleaders of color have plowed the ground building networks for mutual aid and resistanceprefiguring the faintly visible outlines […]
this is not a drillcircumnavigates our globe in tandem with the relative scale of contemporary social dysfunction this is a moment for what is to be donea moment for protection from this infection: for connection and introspection this is a moment that calls for all of us to breatheand look […]
I feel alone–so painfully alone… Lost in a fog of fear, profound remorse, and omnipresent anxiety… My mind has been locked in a vicious cycle of FIGHT, FLIGHT, or FREEZE–a cycle only broken by cathartic tears of pain… I have been confronted in retrograde by a new landscape of harm–this […]