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Haibun for an Easy Girl

Green grows over the earliest years. I found myself running down dark Mississippi streets, diving into ditches as headlights looked on. Cigarette smoke turned stale from bad kisses. The first drag always smells the best. Mystery spirits combined into hazy days and dark nights. Did I find a personality from their hands being down my pants? Do you think I felt pretty? Long dusty roads, but all I saw was pines. Made me think of leadbelly, places where I wasn't ‘sposed to be. Mama never found out, but everyone could smell the smoke that clung to me. Purity had left by the time I was a teen. Spent the green years chasing the blue, but once I found it I wanted the growth back. Since then, I’ve been climbing the vines back into infancy.

Now, I find that a new color is forming, more passion and will. A fog of violet has me in its throes. Every road brings a challenge, a new path. I keep pulling the Ace of Wands, a creative spark I can’t escape. It tells me to follow the fire. My soul burns inside. Last time I reached through the brazier of my creation, my skin melted to bone. Maybe one of these days, I’ll dive back in that old ditch to hide from gossips.

Crisp grass touches me

One day I’ll feel like flower

For now I’m just me

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Summer

The burning sun sends its rays

To places I’ve long forgotten

Abandoned to the crypt of memory

For fear I might be rotten

But I dream like all the others

Of building a golden life

Impressing the kids and their mothers

Who filled childhood with strife

It knocks the wind from my chest

The promise of June

Healing through rest

Listening to night bugs croon

The sun, she rises

Shouting in my ear

DROP YOUR GUISES

UNEARTH YOUR FEAR

You know who you are

And what you must do

Don’t have to stray far

To find the rest too

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Aphrodite; Prayer to protect your heart

Blessed Aphrodite,

Goddess of Love, born of seafoam and starlight,

I come to you with an open heart,

Wounded by longing, yet still beating with hope.

Let not false love find purchase in my spirit,

Nor cold hands hold what is meant to burn with warmth.

Teach me to love without losing myself,

To give with wisdom, to receive without fear.

Guard my heart from those who would break it in carelessness,

And guide me to those who cherish with truth and tenderness.

In moments of loneliness, be my comfort.

In the storm of emotion, be my calm.

Aphrodite, divine protector of the heart,

Hear my prayer and hold me close.

May your beauty surround me, and your strength dwell within me.

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Inside the Church of the Gesu, Sicily, Italy

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Spring

Goddess of Spring

Thaw my winter heart

Grown bleak from leafless trees and lifeless skies,

Make it whole and new.

Fill me with damp moss and honeycomb

Turn these icicle tears to April showers

Let me nourish the land back to spectacular green

These hands can heal, can’t they?

Spin spider silk through my thoughts

Glistening airy bliss

Filling my head with the lonely wind’s whispers,

Let me keep her company.

When I hear the crescendos of bird song,

Let me sing with them.

Plant stems in my veins,

sending petals into bloom from my mouth

Lacing my words with nectar,

So that those who listen entangle in the vines of my cloying spell

Unable to escape my sweetness.

Allow me to warm the world

As if I were Spring too.

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the cycle of life

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The San Francisco Examiner, March 27, 1942

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