Poems
Buff off routine. Polish away habit. Sharpen your crystal mind with silent time. Wake yourself by praying to the gods. Surrender all of image. Let go of your outside eyes. Be a foolish animal, gaping at the forest. Be clumsy and too much and wide-eyed. Kill the thing that pulls back reins, and [...]
I walked backwards, against time and that’s where I caught the moon, singing at me. I steeped downwards, into my seat and that’s where I caught freedom, waiting for me, like a lilac. I ended thought, and I ended story. I stopped designing, and arguing, and sculpting a happy life. I didn’t [...]
The warmth of the hearth in my chest and the breath of warm enoughness and something like love in my throat, a dense goodness covering – all this: because I am home. Because I fought the fight, as difficult as Odysseus’ journey. I slayed dragons, and scaled steep peaks, laid down in a [...]
If your life doesn’t often make you feel like a cauldron of swirling light – If you are not often enough a woman standing above a mysterious fire, lifting her head to the sky – You are doing too much, and listening too little. Read poems. Walk in the woods. Make slow [...]
Oh angel, messenger, face in the mirror – Something keeps asking me to see my face. Something waits for me, is waiting for a meeting I am busy putting off. But when this odyssey has reached its end, you will know it by my face: clear like a porcelain bowl, lenient and tender, [...]
Each one hikes her life around her axis of mystery. You are here only because the cells balanced in some dark place, the cells found each other in some dark place. You were some mind’s long journey before you became the one that takes the journey. You were miracles in the making [...]
Callings are dispatches from the universe about what work is yours to do. Callings are your assignments for bringing light into the world. Oh wait. Here’s what they really are: When you take the great love for all life, when you take the great power of service when you take the energy of [...]
I. Besides the noise and cackling and all the fighting– What else is here? What rests inside the oak tree’s heart? Everything we don’t know. If we were to grasp it, we would fall back in shock: uncompromised, unrelenting goodness. No problem, no struggle, no anything– Remember when, as a child – [...]
The old dream gave way to the new dream, because the new dream grew up and grew out, and waited at the window black against the sky, like branches of an oak. The old dream didn’t end or crumble into wrinkles. It simply slipped into darkness and found another home. Each of us [...]
In the end you won’t be known for the things you did, or what you built, or what you said. You won’t even be known for the love given or the hearts saved, because in the end you won’t be known. You won’t be asked, by a vast creator full of light: [...]
