Colored Sea
They say the eye is the window to one’s soul. Is it really that simple? … Look into my eyes. Can you see all of Me? Can you recognize all that lives and moves in the particles of my spirit. The…
A Kind of Woman
She comes from places of the seen and unseen world. She casts a brightness in the shadows of dim rooms. She opens as they try to shrink her; Fold her into tiny pieces of shredded past… Life… She rests in…
The Day
I summoned all my women today. All who live in me… Come. Come my beloved, and do your work. Come and undo what needs to be undone… Unusually strenuous three days. I braced my own ‘Stations of the Cross.’ All fourteen of them. Emotional exhaustion. As the day of Resurrection…
Two Days
I was asked, if at the age of twenty could I have predicted the circumstances of my life today. The answer is a simple, No! I certainly did not imagine the unplanned events, which have taken shape. For my only desire then was to seek…
Three Days
As I sit in one of my favorite places to write, I take a few minutes for deeper reflection. The Earth’s saddest day and most joyful were just three days apart. In three days everything changed. Nonbelievers became believers. He died…
The Body
Where will I go when it can no longer support me? When my sight grows dimmer. When my stride becomes slower. When my hair turns to grey dusk. When my muscles lose their strength. Where do I go when my…
My first…
“No one puts BB in a corner!” This is my first relationship. The most important relationship. Relationship with self… She died a thousands deaths, and was born a thousand lives. She’s the one who wakes me to feel and experience everything I have…
When Water Speaks.
Water spoke. So, I answered. I came and I watched. I played and I waited. Then, I spoke. So, water answered. It came and it watched. It played and it waited. Until our lungs were seduced into slow waves. It whispered…
The Game Changer
If I had the power to do anything, I would change the game. I would change the ideas of what it should be. I would do nothing like it was taught to do. I would change the game, so money or cars wouldn’t…
The Earth
She says, she wants to be an artist. She says she wants to paint and draw pictures… She has dreams and nightmares often, which wake her up in the middle of the night. It is believed that such graphic nocturnal…
I’ve Known.
I’ve known men who live in deafening boldness, and those who thunder softly in their hearts. I’ve known men who speak words fearlessly, and those whose voices speak in deeds. I’ve known men who love immensely, and those who are…
Birthplace
When people ask me, as they often do, where does it come from? The paintings? The vision or idea? Like an outsider, I observe my mind searching for the answer. It shoots straight to the center. I could feel it;…