On the backside of my parents’ front door, hung a polished brass plaque, its edges worn smooth from years of hands brushing past, its...

That my very nature was an enemy to God. My nature— to observe the symmetry, to seek the unseen paths, to contemplate the quiet woven...

He carries the weight of wonder, collecting fragments of light— a glance, a laugh, the brush of a hand against his own. Each moment he...

Asteroids struck. Craters filled. Rivers carved beneath fire. The Maya knew: Light blinds. Darkness reveals. Cenotes— still, sacred— cool...

How Do You Say Goodbye To a life once lived in its fullest expression. To a God you once knew and felt fully. To a home that you built as...

The hair at my temples are starting to silver and the lines on my face are beginning to gather. I find my heart is as tender and soft as...

What beautiful truth are you afraid to pull from the cavern of your heart? From the deep crevices of suffering comes insight. Like eyes...

I’ve tried ayahuasca in Hawaii, dressed all-in-white, while shitting my pants. I’ve tried working with a life coach that held me...

At twelve we moved from the Pacific to the Atlantic ocean. Warm suburbia was traded in for crisp city life. We were living in a temporary...

What is Love? How does it fit? Is it expansive? Is it for free? A verb or a noun? Animal? Vegetable? Mineral? Chemical? Euphoria?...

I want to crawl in hole, deep and black and sit in it’s cold darkness and think. Cover me in dirt that smells like beginning, so that I...

Bright beings, made of stars and light. Hover in an ever-expanding, cold austere silence. Floating through clusters of constellations,...

Thalassa, Goddess of the Sea She was pushed out into the world like water. Skin pink and eyes squinted, gurgling confidently and lustily,...

Pleasurable Woman I am done being your Madonna. Suckling babies at my breast, swollen belly, bumbling and barefoot. I am not your Saint....

a bird sings on franklin street the snow has melted in milwaukee, trash once hidden out of view is now plain all along bradley road,...

Some people worship idols, The Virgin Mary, Shiva, Buddha. Gods-in-training. I want to worship you. You, a living manifestation of god’s...

Who knew the power she would find behind fuchsia and lace, a color she despised and a material that made her itch Slipping that hideous...

Was gilded in platinum, just like my hair and studded in 2 carat VS2 Asscher cut diamonds, Only the best. My enclosure was lined in...