the edges of myself

words, words, words

overrun and overcome by the river of emotion– the soft insistent flow that surges without explanation– a wandering thought gives rise to the butterflies that live inside my stomach and travel through my body (to some places more than others) when you come to mind.   moving through carefully placed postures and understood roadblocks– the logic of them unable to assuage the …

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I found this photograph a couple of days ago in a drawer by the side of my bed.  It’s my sweet little baby girl, about two months before her 2nd birthday.  (Right now she’s less than a month from her seventh birthday).  This photo was taken in Oakland, CA at my best friend’s home sometime …

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i can say the same thing over and over again with new words– articulate the feelings,  ever expanding– and celebrate the joy that flows through and around my heart like hot springs, beginning internally and working their way out to the edges– creating a warmth, a safety, that cannot be duplicated.   i am vast, …

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my love for you flattens all constructs, replaces ideas, fragments the structures so clearly fixed.   it leaves me amongst the rubble and decay of beliefs and images held dearly since the beginning of time.   understanding as a caterpillar taking to her chrysalis, that with the death of certainty, comes the birth of flight.