This is why I write

  Since I started publishing my writing I have been getting responses that, to be honest, I don’t really know how to respond to because I had no idea the […]

Beyond here be Monsters

A little piece I wrote this seveal years ago when I was facing the necessity of rejoining “civilized society” after being off-grid and pretty much off the map for a […]

This is my Heart

I scan the news with horror How can we Presumed advanced Assumed superior Be anything more Than most inferior So long as we treat others Our sisters and our brothers […]

All is well

Frustration has gotten the best of me I rest my head On this little couch In my little home Close my eyes Blurred with tears Weary from failures Too many […]

Meet me there

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I’ll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk […]

One person at a time

  As published in Elephant Journal 8/5/17   I see a young woman punished by a mind that differs from my own pushing a shopping cart through the dregs of […]

I am amazed

  I am amazed Breathless Speechless My heart softens and opens at the thought of you My soul reaches out and finds you there waiting You are so much more […]

Change

I stand in awe as I face this sea of change It is infinite yet in its eternity lay a single course I am meant to follow though I can […]

This morning

  I lay in bed this morning and tried to imagine you there. Would you be facing me? Would I feel your breath on me? Do you lay on your […]

Surrender

  When I first set myself upon the path of change I’ve walked for some time now, I knew the way would be difficult. That it would, at times, be […]