You who set these snares,
Release me, flower-shaken
Heart drowning in light.
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For Rilke
A sideways pursuit
Head bowed, no hands, tail thrashing
Living the questions.
Summer’s Vintage
Fall tips the bottle
Flowers open fading throats
One last swill of sun.
Logogram
Curvaceous mermaid
On rocky perch, singing sea
To land — ampersand.
Unexpected Me
Turned hotly to strike,
Tripped on electric surprise—
My coiling beauty.
Some Days
On some days heart is
a small, fantastical bird
with ruffled feathers
Dissemination
This love lifts from me
Like summer pollen riding
Bareback on the breeze.
Stargazer pollen dust from 1 brazenly fragrant lily + the very last sip of afternoon coffee + a splinter of kajal & 1 impetuous paintbrush
No Fixed Address
To be indiscriminately captivated means to be at home anywhere, everywhere, nowhere. Why fault this faculty? Single-mindedness is so often misapplied. Would she tell the bumblebee not to be so flighty? Would she command the butterfly to be less fickle? So much depends on their roving eyes, their ravishing way.
Her life, and theirs.
To be one with the Ten Thousand Things is her true nature. This is not dispersion. It is the end of a long exile. After living cramped in a dingy attic, like the blighted stepchild of fairytales– a return to a vast homeland.
The heart, she discovered with a start, has no fixed address.
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