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How to Transform What is Dense and Dark?

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on November 3, 2023| Leave a Comment »

I hope you enjoy a new cine poem from my new spoken word album DARK PRAISE–this one honoring how we might meet the dense and dark world and make it more porous–featuring the amazing Steve Law on guitar and the art of the wonderful Marisa S. White. This poem, and the whole album, is available for free download anywhere you listen to music (spotify, apple music, etc) or you can support the project by purchasing the album on bandcamp. 

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How the Healing Comes

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , on February 3, 2022| 18 Comments »




Healing comes less like a falcon
with mighty wings,
and more like an earthworm
that slowly, slowly moves
beneath it all, tightening up,
then stretching out, tightening up
and stretching out, a simple
two-part rhythm. Some days,
that is all the body can do.
Contract. Expand. Contract. Expand.
In the meantime, through this
artless act, what is dense
becomes porous.
In the meantime, what is stuck
and clotted gets moved around.
What is dead passes through,
is processed by the grit inside.
There are tunnels now in the soil of me,
thin channels of recovery—
a blessed loosening,
a gradual renewal. It’s unhurried, but
I feel the air, the rain,
the life coming in.

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