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JOY EXTINGUISHED: eulogy for Gus
Your voice propheticYour spirit magneticGoth boy fireYour energy electric I look you in your eyesLike I know your painToxins flood…
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GOTHIC ANGEL
Eyes wide openEyes wide shutYou look deep withinExtending your trust Opening my mind to new cultureTo the zeitgeist of the…
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LIBATIONS FOR AN ADDICT
This is raw emotionBarely processed reflexive emotionFeelings swimming amidst violent cliffsLurching in divergent directionsSeeking cathartic expressionSeeking connection We loved youWe…
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WATERS OF RECOVERY
I made this pilgrimageI came to the sea seeking recoveryTo this convening of addictsTrying to change our patternsTrying to recover…
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PROPHET OF YEARNING
You were a sacrificeAn offering from the sacredA voice for a generationProphet of liberationProphet of yearning I ride by this…
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PROTEGES of PROPHECY
Blue light ricochets through waterCoursing like seismic electricityInvoking cosmic destinyMolding a conjecture with prophecyThis visceral manifestation of what I…
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ADDICT POTENTIAL
I come through sandReverberating with karmic potential I come for the sunRising from beyond the ocean We are survivors of…
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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…
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SACRED EYE
I am evolving and deepening my awareness… With the shackles of addiction in remission I live in gratitude and in…
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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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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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GRATITUDE
I am always looking for magicseeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation…