Tag Archives: mother

safe

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

there are many ways to it that safe spot in the yard the oak, thicker than my mother’s waist touching it means game over before another round and I have been it, circling and chasing prey that laughs but no … Continue reading →

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her ritual

Posted on August 10, 2012 by

they need balloons in heaven she says & every year on her mother’s birthday she buys a dozen red ones & looses their ribbons all at once watching until sky swallows all that redness she calls remembering & I call … Continue reading →

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why the ocean has an intimacy to it

Posted on July 11, 2012 by

we know water and salt breathed weightless within turns & tidal rushes jealous of mermaids we long for what was laid down in blood memory that never knew words dream of flight as a casual push off of feet before we … Continue reading →

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The elements

Posted on May 13, 2012 by

#1:  Fire Because fire warms & is the strength of the sun that ultimately nurtures everything, if relationships are elemental, then love is best expressed as fire & must be fed, even as it feeds us. #2:  Earth Matrix of all living, she … Continue reading →

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