sobriety

  • JOY EXTINGUISHED: eulogy for Gus

    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…

  • GOTHIC ANGEL

    GOTHIC ANGEL

    Eyes wide openEyes wide shutYou look deep withinExtending your trust Opening my mind to new cultureTo the zeitgeist of the…

  • LIBATIONS FOR AN ADDICT

    LIBATIONS FOR AN ADDICT

    This is raw emotionBarely processed reflexive emotionFeelings swimming amidst violent cliffsLurching in divergent directionsSeeking cathartic expressionSeeking connection We loved youWe…

  • 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…

  • ADDICT POTENTIAL

    ADDICT POTENTIAL

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

  • 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…

  • SACRED EYE

    SACRED EYE

    I am evolving and deepening my awareness… With the shackles of addiction in remission I live in gratitude and in…

  • 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…

  • MEDITATION ON HUMILITY

    MEDITATION ON HUMILITY

    its hard to be humble when the energy and adrenaline of an action are racing through my veinshard when my…

  • GRATITUDE

    GRATITUDE

      I am always looking for magicseeking the dilation of time, the deepest enunciation of truth, the most exquisite attenuation…