talk to your mind so
so sweetly, like you
talk to a baby
& perhaps here
in this tenderness
there is freedom
turn around
look at yourself
really look
there you are
there you are
2023-01-26 21:10:36 +0000 UTC View Post
this is your life.
enjoy it.
enjoy thoroughly what is here.
you are not a victim.
you are the creator.
you make decisions.
own them.
2023-01-24 23:14:20 +0000 UTC View Posthoney in my hair
matted and tangled
sticky and pubic
oh what a snarled web
we’ve woven!
the queen bee
she whispers to me
some things I can’t tell you
but this I reveal:
we have the power
to heal ourselves
through orgasm
honey in my hair
they told me to be
weak and submissive
you’re just a girl
not so
I’m a sword
I raise my arm 2023-01-23 13:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post
moist pitter patter
frigid darkness, Milky Way
sleep sound in the womb
2023-01-23 04:59:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Been on a journey
Through & through cycles,
Cycles — each time
Becoming
More confident
Leaping into unknown
Ishvara pranidhana!
Been on a journey
Everything played out
Perfectly, disastrously
All divinely orchestrated
All from the heart
2023-01-22 00:46:57 +0000 UTC View Post
how to overcome doubt on the path? remind: this is the only option. this tender, fierce, messy, arousing, limitless artmaking. this perpetual longing. this flirtation with God.
remind: honey, you are absolutely nothing and that is the most beautiful thing. keep going. keep not going. listen listen listen to the silence. let the creative impulse undulate within the heart-mind. rise and fall. the waves. again.
“a writer or any artist can't expect to be embraced by the people. i’...
2023-01-16 02:35:21 +0000 UTC View Post
my sleepy eyes open
i make a cup of coffee
and read with elias
i drive to the beach
say mantras by the ocean
i breathe
am nervous i’ll get into trouble for going into the ocean
i breathe
do it anyway
submerge myself in dark brine
the womb the womb
home
again!
feel a rush of adrenaline
i breathe
come home to myself
when i want to do nothing but run
i hear my body whisper 2023-01-11 02:50:10 +0000 UTC View Post
the sharp edge of life
like an ice pick,
this razor-edged clarity
vibrant colors pulsating, undulating
with opened eyes wide so wide
i gasp, tremble, weep, rejoice
rouse in the dance of the serpent
all surrender to Her raw magnificence
but stay sedated, you stay
i understand—know the pain well
some days i’m lulled into anesthesia
unexpectedly: a stroke of grace
i cannot sleep anymore
i cannot...
2023-01-09 02:12:45 +0000 UTC View Post
nude portraiture (which sees the body as an art-form, and strips it of habitual societal hypersexualization) has been key in reconnecting with the sacred essence of my body. the body: our abode for this life. celebrating and bowing to this complex vessel in all its forms. in all it’s bliss and grief and messiness and paradoxical perfection.
this art form has been and continues to be one of the most healing rituals for my relationship with my body/ sexuality. i consistently get this f...
2023-01-07 15:01:16 +0000 UTC View Post
suspended in time
a trillion blades of grass
dusted in amber light
that i am
2023-01-07 01:11:40 +0000 UTC View Postfriend, listen: this love doesn't come or go.
one sip from the cup of that sweetness, the world starts to spin.
now I'm a drunk for life. unsoberable.
tell them it's useless to try.
—mirabai
2023-01-06 03:00:13 +0000 UTC View Postdeath on my mind
death on my mind
oh oh fear!
opening to the fear
reveals that it’s
excitement in disguise
as a great teacher said:
“altogether we are happy to die.
we take our joy along with us.
it is unusually romantic to die”
and so i slip into dream state
each night and each night
i die … last night i become
aware within the dream
i am on a rusty fire escape
in the mid...
2023-01-04 17:54:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Been working
Going going going
Head bowed,
kidneys clenched
Quick—earth is burning
Burdens on shoulders
Be martyr—repent repent repent
And then—stop.
Fatigue
I need
I need
I need
Well, to be gentle
with me
Realize: really need tenderness,
Realize: really need Motherly love
spacious, all-accepting, always there
Really need to give ...
2023-01-03 21:23:07 +0000 UTC View Post
before you speak, ask yourself:
i) is it kind?
ii) is it necessary?
iii) is it true?
iv) does it improve the silence?
2023-01-02 19:50:56 +0000 UTC View Post
