MOVE Do you want me to move you? Show me just a little of who you really are- I will make a shovel out of words- and dig down beneath your soul so I can lift it out- intact and present it to you from every side. When you see it all together like that... Continue Reading →
Age Before Beauty
Prell Shampoo Breck Coconut Cream Rinse (square glass bottle) Chapstick (metal tube) Hairbrush That was once the entire list of my beauty arsenal that I carried to school, swim team practice, and anywhere else I had to look more human than Yeti. Can I just say that by today’s standards, I may as well have... Continue Reading →
Jar of Wonder
I’ve used the last of the lotion I concocted several months back and I can’t seem to toss out the cool jar. It’s squatty and round and it once held a moderately pricey and amazing royal jelly body butter from Savannah Bee Company. Custom blending makes me feel like an alchemist; scooping and stirring and... Continue Reading →
Poetry Day: Phoenix
Phoenix Only in the opening of climax do we awaken and release the immortal phoenix dreaming deeply within- its vastness experienced as our bodies rise sternum to the sky to receive the ecstatic lightening that burns away age, body, class, race, care and situation- we all rise on wings we have kept tucked tight to... Continue Reading →