Tender anticipation of empathy Seeking to collapse a year A year of wandering souls in isolation In COVID 19 In anti-humanity Releasings of pain. Architecting the novel of your sanctuary. Rebirthing a daughter. Catching and releasing the sons. Trusting the hubcaps of safety. Future state, future you glimmering [...]
The air glides over your curves, in a steam of heaviness, cloaking you. Especially around the heart space. You wonder if a heart can be cloaked. A robin chirps for its mate from a distant rooftop. This air lightly translating the message. The punctuation of the call draws you back, into the weight of [...]
Today we broke apart an established world and it remained intact. The two thirteen-year-old girls that I have lived with for five years are moving out next month. Their Dad is going with them. The expected fury of emotion and running into bedrooms never arrived. Instead there was incessant chatter about which type of pet; hedgehog, [...]
2019- Hello! Thank you for the unknown blessings already making their way to us. Thank you for the souls of possibility. Thank you for the hand crafted silver sprayed treebranch art installation embedded in sea shells and aquamarine crystals. Flamboyant and festive--This year is here.
Out of the corner of my eye I see them. By rote, my feet steer to the table housing the red, brown, green and gold painted balsa wood configurations. I walk directly up to the festive card table in the middle of the green house filled with Poinsettias. I know people are milling. I see no [...]
I drive slowly around the bend away from the upper sports field of my youngest’s middle school. I look up and through the stark framing of a house on a street in an otherwise complete and constructed neighborhood in north Seattle. The upper, third-maybe fourth-story roof line is sharply pitched-maybe an obtuse triangle. Pulling back from [...]
Life is trying. Trying to be first, trying to push opinions, answers and consequences. And today it feels like life is Himalayan in its unruly messiness. The scorching upcoming confirmation of Kavanaugh to a seat on the United States highest court of justice. The ashes of women betrayed in every conversation and community space. There is [...]
There is a smell of moss and lumberjack permeating the studio. I dribble in late, sinking quickly into the black leather stylist chair. "I've never seen your hair down" I comment. An ocean of aqua marine locks drape over Siddal's right shoulder. They reach her waist. Suddenly I'm sitting on the porcelain bathtub of my grandmother's [...]
"...I wanted to be an entertainer. And you can't be an entertainer without an audience. Thank you for making my dreams come true." Al Milar perches 20 feet above the ground on a steel contraption engineered for street performers. In the musty Vermont mid summer night he cuts the shape of a mounted superhero clad in [...]
"Hey-can you buy me a coffee?" I tip my head in the direction of the baritone voice replenishing the empty coffee shop. I instantly thrust out my hand with a recently pulled tall Americano. "I need to drink more water. Please have this." The space is quiet. No words. I skim the front of my sunglasses [...]
