In your spiral shell you hold the answer - that slowness is radical.

Mindfully I step, picking my path with intention lest I should crush snail or crustacean beneath clumsy feet.

Dripping in wonder and cooing joy, on steadfast legs you walk away. You walk away from me.

It began with a babble a rolling of sound in your gummy pink mouth

She peeked out So quiet and coy Hesitant, insistent Teasing, but Barely revealing herself Yet she was there— Here Unmistakable and...

I know it’s happening—the pattern’s the same. Words only visit when the spirit is untame. First, clustering like flowers, my mind abloom...

[Look up] You may catch the sky wrapped in a waltz with the clouds calm and cotton so slow, so steady it bends time. Nana T....

i woke up this morning on the edge of my breath holding a current in between the gaps of my crooked teeth

this Neck is my pedestal it holds the crown of all my thoughts ideas that never get written down

It started like any other rain — soft taps

First, boil some water and pretend it’s for tea,

I woke in the body of a tree — my arms outstretched, my breath slowed to the rhythm of leaves. I felt the ants, the weight of a bird, the...

The night sky pools in a puddle  from the afternoon's downpour.  A telescope for my enjoyment. Stars, clustered like frogspawn, blink for...

I. The feeling, of Growing up seaside, and leaving… to return years later, enchanted and calmed by The sound of the waves and The sight...

Like languid coral, I lay motionless in the hospital bed. The tides had little effect on me Beneath the surface. Ebbing and flowing,...

Where I stand: let home be here. Let home be more than vessel for me. With warmth holding on to every corner. Let it be a haven. Like...

Segments of orange, eaten one. by. one. Flowing juices d r i p. White shirt. Citrus stains. A lasting...

all be unafraid to feel. Let us all take the time to discard time, and make our times side by side the only times, for a time. Let us all...

His hands smell of anemone and mushrooms on a spring morning. The sea is as flat as he is silent. He’s a man who deals with silence and...

There is a river in my dreams and in my dreams, it is more than a river— it is a place where I can go to put my problems, where I can put...