Recovery

  • WATERS OF RECOVERY

    WATERS OF RECOVERY

    I made this pilgrimageI came to the sea seeking recoveryTo this convening of addictsTrying to change our patternsTrying to recover…

  • PROPHET OF YEARNING

    PROPHET OF YEARNING

    You were a sacrificeAn offering from the sacredA voice for a generationProphet of liberationProphet of yearning I ride by this…

  • PROTEGES of PROPHECY

    PROTEGES of PROPHECY

      Blue light ricochets through waterCoursing like seismic electricityInvoking cosmic destinyMolding a conjecture with prophecyThis visceral manifestation of what I…

  • RESILIENCE

    RESILIENCE

    I see fire in this paintingStrength born from painI see resilience and perseverance I see the resurgent power of creationPower…

  • REMIND ME TO FORGET

    REMIND ME TO FORGET

    MemoriesHaunting meLeaving meNo air to breathe DestinyMysteryHaunting meTaunting me I come to writeI come to witnessHundreds of birdsFlocking to the…

  • HYDRAULIC SEX

    HYDRAULIC SEX

    You are thunder amidst the rainYou swim in the river that keeps me saneErotic power flows through your veinsWe recover…

  • SOLSTICE HONESTY: a bypo journal

    SOLSTICE HONESTY: a bypo journal

    I come to the deep blue black of my riverI come to take my inventoryTo get honestTo get radically honest…

  • ADDICT POTENTIAL

    ADDICT POTENTIAL

    I come through sandReverberating with karmic potential I come for the sunRising from beyond the ocean We are survivors of…

  • CLEAN DATE: a bypo journal

    CLEAN DATE: a bypo journal

    February 26thIs just a dateA marker in timeAn outpost amidst psychic wildlings For me it is my clean dateToday—my two…

  • TRAUMA SURVIVORS ANONYMOUS: a bypo journal

    TRAUMA SURVIVORS ANONYMOUS: a bypo journal

    I sit by the water—I came here to writeThe river ebbs and flows and pulsates with energyIt reverberates with the…

  • THE ZEN OF RECOVERY

    THE ZEN OF RECOVERY

    Here I am: right were I need to be… This perfect June sky approaching sunset—delicate blues and pinks dancing in…

  • ORACLE OF THE SNAKE

    ORACLE OF THE SNAKE

      Snake medicine pulsates through my being, unleashing immense powers of creativitybringing psychic energy into awareness and channeling this magic…

  • STACATTO IMAGINATION

    STACATTO IMAGINATION

    my mind reverberates at hypomanic speed to the rhythms of the flickering flames–seven multicolored pillars of fire surround my sacred…

  • TRUST THE PROCESS

    TRUST THE PROCESS

      this is a poem about recoverya poem as metaphor for my journey towards synchronicity with my higher power none…

  • PSYCHEDELIC JESUS

    PSYCHEDELIC JESUS

    light and sound become energized and fused into onewe see fractals in the moon and volcanic power in the sunpsychedelic…

  • ANANSI

    ANANSI

    i am a vessel for sacred forces arising in a moment of unprecedented global perilwe must draw strength from our…

  • CUNNING ENEMY

    CUNNING ENEMY

    i am only forty-one, but addiction has been a cunning enemy of my life for at least three decadesat first…

  • KARMIC TRANSITION

    KARMIC TRANSITION

    i have tried to cry for days, just feeling that grief is the right feeling to feelemotive songs have helped…

  • MORE WILL BE REVEALED

    MORE WILL BE REVEALED

    in your eyes is placed a power greater than all of their hoarded goldyour eyes are wormholes to a future…

  • SONG OF SURRENDER

    SONG OF SURRENDER

    here i am–humbly and blissfully imperfectreckoning with harm i have caused by striving to be accountable and doing work to…