a life worth living.
I want to be drunk with you.
I want to fight over washing the dishes and politics and
vaccines and family dynamics
I want to love you and forgive you
and dance with you in the moonlight, naked on the shores
of lake superior.
I want to question the strength of our bond only to come back
tenfold after talking it out all night
or even fighting for a week
I want to sink to the darkest depths of
my jealousy when you go out on a sleepover
and feel confirmed and renewed and loved all over again
when you return to me in the morning
I want to sail on calm waves and stormy seas
and kiss your face all the way through
I want to fuck you for hours on end
strap up to rail you until you come
then let you string me up like a wild animal
tamed by your voice, low and steady in my ear.
I want to be sober with you.
I want to talk for hours about philosophy, dreams, and visions
waxing poetic and apocalyptic about possible futures
I want hot tea and reading to each other in bed
I want an untamed garden we tend together by the moon
and rich meals for dinner with delicious drinks
and dancing in the kitchen while we clean
I want rewards to encourage each other through trying tasks
I want scorpio intensity
and scorpio pleasure
and scorpio ease
I want simplicity.
I want complexity.
I want it all with you.
no compromises.
I want to dance with you til the sun rises one night
and love you while the moon treks through the sky the next
I want to go to bed early with you
with warm tummies and exciting books
and pass out purely in each others arms
I want to fight unknown monsters with you
I want to share a hearth worth defending
I want to build a life worth living
I want to survive with you
I want to craft new worlds.
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midsummer.
on the very last eve of june
in the fresh new swells of summer
we love each other down and deeply
on the shores of little pleasant bay
we are surrounded by savage winds
and kissed by furious raindrops
- sent to us by fond calypso herself -
and I am kissed by you, yourself
wild and lost to sea, we are
surrendered to roiling waves of divinity
I love you, I love you, I wish to roll you on my tongue for
leagues of infinity
the wild whims of the atlantic rage
around us and yet we are protected
divinely connected
a perfect calm in a windswept storm
I love you, and you are we,
we are they
we are the same
interconnected
we express the earth
the air, the fire
the water!
return, return, return, return
we roll and dip, flip,
capsize
our scorpio water hearts blazing in the coldest light of this
ruthless, sunless morning dawning
over little pleasant bay.
how can I sleep when there is
still so much of you I want
to love, to know, to taste, to touch?
how can I face the day when I haven't yet had
enough hours with you on this plane
or the next one?
don't you want to run, not walk?
I see you running all day
and I'm no runner
but with you, I couldn't say
you bring me to new heights
and lead me to fresh depths of my own oceans
for you I would choose to suspend
all doubt, all fear
all disbelief.
my heart on the winds
I dream this midsummer morning of walking with you
to the edge of all known earths
and into every realm beyond.
my heart sunk down through untold fathoms
resting on the unseen soft and sandy floor
deep and gentle
safe and anchored
endlessly buried in your depths
I see now that you are the siren
calling me home
with a love in your voice that few understand
and even less extend
it doesn't have to hurt
not any part of it.
I know that now.
you show me in
every way you choose
to love me.
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hieros gamos.
your touch, a charm
your kiss, a trance
green man that you are
abundant, overflowing
sprouting grasses, blooming, leaning in
your tiger's eyes hold me close while you
and I merge deeply
your sensitive skin inside me like silk
magnetized and ravenous
in awe and in love, and even more than that
gently spreading heart salves on
unseen wounds
you touch your tongue upon my skin
(a sacrament like none before it)
and split me open with such care
I am opened to gaia
I am opened to lilith
I am opened up to sky
and down to earth
to cosmos and the underworlds
to volcanoes and to rains
to winds and oceans
I am opened to artemis,
persephone, and parvati
I am between the worlds
and rooted in you
rooting through you
over and around your stamen
down through your blood, your bones, your stones
your water, your pollen, your nature
and down into the earth herself
I am rooted through you and elevated
into the heavens
I am the tree of life, of this realm and
every next one
my throat is open, that holy portal
from voice to vulva
I crest and break over you, over and again
through you, and around you
and the most primal holy light shoots
from you, through me
from tip to top
up through sibling trees and out to stars
down through soil and bedrock
engulfing ancestors
plunging straight to the core of the earth.
in the service of aphrodite
through soft skins on soft skins
scar tissue is made
and remade new again
alchemy pouring through our pores
we exchange molecules and magicks
through our fields, our fluids,
saliva, and breath
every part of me ever misused or abused
ignored or unseen
passed over for surface pleasures and cheap thrills
as you see me, worship me, pleasure me whole
and drape me in the finest of
green gowns ever known to the gods
woven of bluebonnets and grama grasses
firewheels and prairie dropseed
you tuck a thistle behind my ear
and flowercrown my stigma with sweet reverence and love
you hold me up to gaia,
selena, and great mother -
in your arms, I am safe.
in your heart, I am seen.
together, we create new worlds
and sow new dreams.
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joyless.
I don’t dance anymore.
the men, they ripped the heart right out of me
over many nights on many dance floors,
with every unwanted kiss and wandering hand
with sweaty paws and damp nuzzles on my neck
they slowly pulled my bloody beating
heart right out of my chest
I have watched them take advantage,
these men who barely know how to dance
these men who learned just enough to
boost their own ego by being able to
touch and control a woman’s body
these men who’ve been dancing only
a fraction of the time that I have
just long enough to persuade innocent girls
who have newly discovered the allure of this ethereal craft
and women who want more, want more
want to look good and
talented on the dance floor
- he's learned just enough, or more likely hasn't learned
anything at all and is simply gifted
with the audacity men are so blessed to be
naturally endowed with -
in any case he's able to convince her that he holds the secret
if only she would come over to his house and pay him money
- her money, which is still about 83 cents to his dollar -
so he can touch her out of the sight of others
and I watch the men in charge of these scenes
who have voluntarily taken on the safety of a community
where women are disproportionately preyed on
and women get to choose the
possibility of new trauma vs.
the possibility of new joy
every time they accept a dance with a man
- these men in charge they watch and they do nothing
they watch and apparently are unable to learn
they watch and they don’t see what I see
- or more likely just can’t be bothered -
so I tell them.
and the man who kissed me
three times on the neck without consent and made
unforgivably crude comments in my ear all while
touching my body
on the dance floor where I am supposed to experience joy
that man is still welcomed with open arms
in the rooms where I no longer show my face because
I tell the men in charge and they do nothing
and the women, I tell them too and they shrug
and keep going to those dance floors because
it didn’t happen to them
so I guess it doesn’t matter
and they keep giving money
and friendship and dances to these men
who refuse to keep us safe
and all my friends say:
“I’m sorry, I have to go.
My mental health, you know.”
and every time another friend says that,
all I hear them saying is
my mental health doesn’t matter.
they must not have heard the anguish in my voice
every time I ever confessed that
dance is the only place in my life
where I experience joy.
and they don’t seem to care that I deserve
to experience joy, too.
that I no longer have access to this medicine.
and everyone talks about supporting the "community"
but I stand now on the outside
watching the people I thought were my community
and instead of
solidarity and mutual aid and
community support
- instead of everyone standing up and
demanding better remedies
better leadership
better standards -
my friends they leave me behind,
unsupported.
and they keep going back to drink from a poisoned well.
and I watch and I am distraught
for not having any water to drink at all
but I know that dying of thirst is better than
paying a miser's fee to drink from the well he poisoned himself.
and the men they plan more dances
and I am absent from them all.
everyone says they miss me and
everyone says they want to dance with me
and I stare blankly back at them because
I watched them trade me for the predators they chose to keep.
I watched them make that choice
over and again .
and everyone wants to dance with me
but no one is doing anything it would take
for me to dance again.
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where the heart is.
you remind me what it's like to be
young and full of love and
overflowing with
boundless life force, wielding
vortices of creative energy -
simply by virtue of
making choices and chasing a dream.
you remind me what I love
and what matters most to me -
you remind me what feels like home.
you awakened me
- I didn't realize I was even sleeping
all this time?
three years stuck in a
mucky muddy gridlock, bound and
gagged by rotting cords,
fighting to get free for so long, a deer
snared in a trap - exhausted
I have just been
laying here,
half-conscious and
frozen in panic -
and I don't mean that I needed to be saved
but you did come upon me there
and though you found me
broken and
thrashing and
bleeding out -
you loved me anyway.
and you stayed by my side.
and somehow that was enough.
your love is a salve
a mystery to me
of the oldest kind
and you didn't save me but
you did stop the bleeding so that I could
breathe deep in your shelter and
find my way out.
thank you for waking me up and thank you
for waking up to me.
your love has brought me
home to myself.
your love has set me free.
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tidal force.
winging away from you once again I am
leaving you again, again, again.
and another new year yawns and
stretches out before me,
it is wide and winding and
covered in question marks and
marked by Tulsi Holy Basil,
Awakening.
Look at her: Waking up!
I miss you already.
I miss you in all the spaces where I want
to be building together.
and I am home and I miss you
on my couch and I miss you
in my kitchen and I miss you
kissing me naked and ravenous in the hallway
where we can't keep our hands off
each other as we tumble between
the bathroom
and the bed.
I miss you and
you are also with me.
it's always that way with you -
a problem is never a problem, in your presence
a conflict beheld by another
under your gaze dissipates
into the flow of the river
the laws of gravity are obeyed always
in your
sweet water arms,
the path of least resistance
- not a defeat, only
true and right and
patience and
love.
I miss you and
what could we have to worry about?
after all we are but
earthly bodies of water ruled
gently by the moon herself -
I know this to be true because the moon,
she brought us to each other
slowly and deliberately and over many,
many miles
and at just the right time
and who am I to question
the divine timing
of the moon?
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star body.
I loved you before I ever met you and
when I met you I knew you
instantly.
perhaps our particles are
from the same star
and the moment you spoke
words in my direction -
my star body memory
recognized
your star body energy
so that we both looked a little
closer and saw there
something deep and
familiar and
fated
in the Channel of Unavoidable Predestiny running
right through both our hearts.
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birthright.
I am made of Alabama red clay
and thick cicada nights
I am made of the sweat beading on your brow
and the steady pulsing of contra dance floors
of heavy thunderstorms rolling
through the hills and lush underbrush
and towering trees of the
Deep South.
I am made of Montana big sky
and thick-coated treks through settled snow
of cross country bike rides
and air so crisp it might pierce your lungs
lake water colder than you ever dreamed
and an unbroken nature like you've never seen.
But more than that I am made of
ancient stardust - the untamed and
tangled deep wildness
of the unfathomable forests of Appalachia.
seventeen years I spent exchanging
molecules with the rhododendrons,
magnolia and dogwood, ferns and mosses
of western North Carolina.
crickets and marigolds and
scuppernongs paint my heart;
honeysuckle and virginia creeper wrap my spine;
mountain brooks and old time music and
tree frogs tap out the rhythm of the blood
running through my veins.
and when I walk the streets of Asheville, North Carolina
the fae there know me
& they call my name.
I am a daughter of the Appalachian mountains.
and neither you
nor him
nor my mother
can ever take that away from me.
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on the one.
i am illusory.
my whole life i have haunted one
place or another
learning
watching
holding my boundaries
taking care of myself
standing strong
always peripheral
never integrated
the challenge of this lifetime for me is
one
(independence).
that will never change.
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up.
i press my feet slowly and carefully into
the moss and the soft
damp ground i am
treading so nimbly like a nymph navigating
the steep slope of the land above the
shores of lake superior
over boulders and under fallen trees
weaving in and around among the
thimbleberries and royal ferns deep here
in the woods of wild upper michigan
a few paces ahead of you i pause under
low hemlock boughs and turn to face you with a
quiet smile on my lips inviting you to step
closer into me with only mischief and desire in my cheeks
we kiss there in the deep green of the woods
hair wet and wild in all directions
and i feel our roots shooting into the
ground below and touching there intertwining
just under the surface
i breathe soft and deeply
a sigh of earth magicks
floating on the cool vapors of our dip in
icy bright fresh waters
i am grounded
i am grateful
i am gloriously warm just to be here with you.
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one minute to go.
I meant to say: when I left you at the airport
that morning I was scared I would
never see you again.
I meant to say: thank you for moving towards me instead.
I meant to say: thank you for standing in this lightning bolt with me
and holding my hand as we have felt it
relished in it
both
electrified.
I meant to say: thank you for bringing yourself to this
moment with such deep care and
presence and
gentle intention.
I meant to say: thank you for being willing to
question your own bounds and
for playing with me here
on the edges.
I meant to say: gaia herself runs in the
veins of the body of this relationship.
I meant to say:
I see you.
honey sweet and fiery scorpio, I meant to say:
I could worship you.
precious tender water scorpio, I meant to say:
I could love you with everything I have.
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i. the magician.
delusional and drunk on foggy neptune transits
you were here for a moment - just one moment, maybe three
I could barely look you in the eye
the lightning there so present, so blinding, so fiery and earnest
and now
you’re gone..
so sticky hot and sweet like honey
surely you were just a dream but
I have barely dared to
dream of you.
the very instant I looked up and saw you
the very moment words moved from one of us to the other
I knew then already that this was actually
something
I knew then already that this could be
everything.
just three nights gaia granted us
a tiny window
a glimpse
a vision
a vignette.
and just like a perfect dream I never dared to dream,
already you are fading away
far too good to be actually true
far too good to be actually real
far too good for me to acually keep.
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0. the fool
it’s meant to be the year of the fool but
am i fool enough to do exactly this?
to plunge headfirst into the deep end of
this deeply glittering pool with
all manner of skeletons and
unknown ugly demons lurking behind corners and
just under the surface?
the cards have said it is so but
i consider how little space there is for me here
i enter this home that’s held so many loves before me and
fold myself patiently into your couch
i am never asked really how i’m doing and
immediately become a container for
each and every thought and story that
passes through your head and out of your lips
without a single filter.
there are already 5 lifetimes here,
and 2 families.
i want to be known
and yes you have capacity
i see it in all you have done with your life
but do you have capacity to know
me?
i am 3 lifetimes and 5 oceans deep.
and i want my love to see and know it all.
and yes you are alive -
so deeply alive in all the ways i dream
the love that’s made for me will be
- but can you be alive with me?
on the very first day of this bright new year
i awoke in a pool of newfound lifeblood,
an utter fountain of forbidden hopes and dreams -
all in your name, swirling above my head and
curling tendrils through my fixed water heart and
i received the news:
open to what you have never known
be willing to make mistakes and
keep your heart open
- with dandelion and monarch butterfly and
your absolute fixed air scent written all up and fucking down
and backwards
- all over it.
and yes i desire to trust the wisdom of the fool but
there is scarcely room for all that i am
in your embrace
and no - i may not be fool
enough to do
exactly
this.
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deep waters.
have you ever danced
with a scorpio, my dear?
I see it in your eyes and
I can hear it in your voice
I feel it in your body,
the way it trembles under mine...
before you take another step, you should really know -
every word I say: an oath
every kiss I give: like breathing
every touch: like lightning
I am deep waters dancing under
the gentle touch of your winds
you play soft and sweet across my surface
come -
lay out your limbs in my deep waters.
I long to whip your winds into a
frenzy like you’ve never known
a whirlwind of careful chemistry,
thrown like caution off the cliff.
I set out to unwind your aquarian riddles and
run down the grooves of your well worn
patterns and paths
I see you so clearly
laid out in front of me...
laid out beneath me...
and I am deepened with a hunger I have
hardly known before.
have you ever danced
with a scorpio, my love?
truly you must watch your step, and
truly you must watch your touch
before you even remember to look up
you will find yourself at my mercy
plunged deep into depths
that do not wish to
give you back.
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age of aquarius.
I’ve been receiving visions of you
can you even believe?
since long before you touched me with that
wild pulsing electricity
since long before you asked me
for that witching hour kiss...
I’ve been receiving visions of you
am I truly mad?
sent to me, I see us deep in the forest -
a goddess and her dryad.
dipping gleefully at bright blue springs
playing like pixies
darting between the weeds...
I have received visions of you!
I can scarce believe it’s true
heads thrown back and shining
sitting at a hilltop fire,
under a blazing flower moon...
years on i have walked certain sacred quiet paths
and while many have approached
their energy is out of place and out of line
awkward in the spaces i call most mine
secret tender spots i hide
in the deepest depths of my own heart
years on not one i’ve met
has been a near match to play the part
and yet
before you ever winked at me so quietly on the couch or
touched me with such careful intention
before i ever shared my names with you or
gave into this smoldering tension
gaia herself sent me visions of you
- you by my side -
in places i never imagined i would
ever bring a single soul.
and while we sit now in separate homes
leading fully separate lives
swirling in the same magic whirlwind spell
of the first week of the new year -
i can’t help but hope
- gaia please tell me true -
these newfound dreams
these visions of you
come true.
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highest desire.
I leave the dance party I am
floating from the wine and good dances
and dear friends
through the perfectly breezy warm april air
crickets and katydids buzz all around me
fuzzy spring foliage wraps street lamps
above me in gorgeous earthly halos
I am reminded that some things never
change
I am reminded this is my highest desire
my happiest place
if I could write the story of my life it would
be this
floating through the night after hours of dancing
over and over and over again
until I am laid softly in the ground.
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not a love story.
I don’t sleep.
I don’t dream.
somehow you got into my air supply
gemini high in the worst way and I
can’t seem to flush you out
you run through my veins all day and
you run through my blood all night
I lay in bed for hours and hours but
I’m never sleeping
I only think of you.
I lay awake all night willing myself to sleep
and I remember the life I imagined for myself.
I wouldn’t have written this story.
I wouldn’t have written you.
I think of all that I have loved about you
the way my whole body warms when I feel you invite me in
and I realize I have imagined you to be
so much more than you are
no you never gave me anything good
from the day that I met you
I’ve been waiting for you to catch up
we made a soul contract and we
promised to meet each other here but
you weren’t ready
I did all the work to be ready to meet you here and you,
you did none of it.
I feel it in my bones
that you have disappointed me
over and over
across the universe and countless dimensions;
I am always waiting to see you and I am
always waiting for you and you,
you never think of me at all.
my friends have been trying to tell me that
you’re no friend to me
and it took me a moment to accept that you
had given up on the idea of wanting me and it
took me a minute to see you for all that you are.
and you stand there now in all your betrayal and
trying to hide that bloody knife behind your back and
wow you must think I’m really stupid
because you stabbed me in the chest
and the blood spattered all in my face
I’m staring at you, bleeding out, and still
you’ve got that dumb look on your face like,
how could I be mad at you and
you dont think you did anything wrong at all.
and I see you now for the coward that you are.
all you do is hide.
all you do is let me down.
this isn’t fun anymore, if it ever was,
and I would never choose this for myself.
I can’t.
I won’t.
I’m gone.
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