Staring up the hill, across a curved expanse of sodden earth, the Wolf draws forward, fearing loss of scent before the Moon’s full birth. Brother Sun eviscerates each nuance, casts aside all shade, and swallows hungrily the dust decaying down from lives well made. As sharp as steel and steady as a hummingbird in Summer’s… Continue reading Mirror
Belief floats beneath the surface of your hardened brow, a jellyfish suspended in viscous fear. Adorned may be your arguments, yet hope whispers nothings into logic's ear. Earth tilts, leaves fall, geese flock towards warmer bays. You stumble, numb, down weathered trails: the future dreams of yesterdays. One season more may be all required to… Continue reading Stilting
I couldn’t quite find the words as we sat together around the table, looking hopefully into our kins’ eyes. So differently our tongues curl. Our gardens keep asynchronous calendars. Our suns rise and fall several degrees apart on the Earth’s dial. We conversed in search of the shared story. I could not find the words… Continue reading Eugene
Here is where I started, and here now return, wondering once more whether I particularly care that no one sees me here. What do they know to notice? The quips and cries, the intellect, the heart, the acts of fearlessness? All this they see, have seen, and recorded pale impressions of a wounded lioness on… Continue reading Spotlight
a Lily under shade peers south and sees the distant showers of light striking merry waves and glistening on beating wings beneath the matted garden bed her roots feel out and down, deep down, but lose the race toward remnants of the rains Coreopsis taunts and flaunts nearby, knowing a longer morning sun that glows,… Continue reading Always
Dani's Healing 