The Stars Are Out Tonight

The stars are strewn about the evening sky like a weighted blanket. Consistent. Strong. Heavy. And if we let ourselves pause for just a moment. Just a pair of seconds as the elders say, The rhythm of the universe will fill us, Reminding us that we aren’t alone. That...

Toni Told Me

in honor of Toni Morrison Toni told me: “you your own best thing.” and even though she didn’t say it specifically to me she said it to me, to us. And perhaps this small phrase, relatively small on the written page, is a powerful key. A key that unlocks the world of...

happy pride

when i say, “Happy Pride!” i mean: see how strangely beautiful we are? how gorgeously divine? see how practiced we are at transforming fear into courage? watch while we make magic wands of the weapons you wield; your slurs, your bans, your every attempt to shame,...

blessing for the cosmic whole

May you, in some altered state of sleeplessness or psychedelics or come-to-the-edge coming apart, access a cosmic view of the whole: span of sapiens, a sweep of your broom on the back stoop. Empires rising and falling like breath and your life: a flash of sunlight...

hauntings

Do you believe in ghosts, holy and haunting? Touches that reach beyond our constructions of time Stories uncontained by the arms of history Presence that spills over, palpable and potent Beyond our rigid binaries of ends and beginnings a mysterious fluidity among...