Illumination Through Verse

Wheels of Light my Love Wheels of Light for your morning repast for your evening supper show me your face Wheels of Light in my heart unwinding the past Wheels of Light in my sex joining with the...

help me wake up from the opium dream so much pleasure of skin sound and liquid yet somehow unreal like it took place in the dim light of the secret opium den with a beautiful ghost that you long for...

my sin is the forgetting the desperate scheming arising from fear dark shadows patterned like serpents I offer up my healing to the Sky Grandmothers and their steady Queridos who hold the dimensions...

sun-kissed dew heavy raindrops how many flavors of water? of Love? learning the steady drumbeat heartbeat lay the baby on your bare chest steady steady kindness container of safety of adoration for...

is it a leopard-patterned print or a white surgical mask that covers the nose and mouth? is it a tall sombrero or a straw sunhat in beige and black that covers the top of the head? crown of stars...

sometimes it takes me a moment to realize that I’m in hell I see the one who is so afraid to die from hunger so afraid to feel what erupts from the belly through the throat that she grabs whatever...