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Poetry/Blog

Caging the Light

Try and cage the light. Watch as the light cracks its cage letting in more, light. Like a beach ball under water. Rumi, Leonard Cohen,...

Rest in Power, Barry.

Barry Washington Junior. Say. His. Name. Barry Washington Junior. Another soul another Boy another boy’s Life another mother’s baby...

Environmental Justice, Intergenerational Rage

It was an honor and delight to offer environment-oriented spoken word at Bend, OR's Environmental Center last week! See below for poems...

Rings in the Desert

There was a ring in the desert but no bells nearby. The humble Junipers, majestic as they watched Two people cry. Together they cried,...

Burning is a Gift

Your greatest gift? When you yell in my face, Where’s your fire?! You mean the fire that melts shadow, that ignites the spark of anger,...

No Due Process (in Polyamory)

Each time you walk Out the door I see my mama’s back. Each time you get ready for a date, I see you getting ready To forget me. Mama. You...

Like Paper

I kneel, prostrated Between your lower limbs Forehead to the back Of your hands Reveling In the Quiet Gift Of being with you. One day...