moon dance

peel me back the way you do the moon. Take away the fullness I’ve created in myself layer by layer edge by edge. wash me away into darkness. Hide me away behind your brush. Only then when I am ready repaint me into the sky Your design as you do the moon each...
runon: open letter to EncaustiCamp

runon: open letter to EncaustiCamp

EncaustiCamp thank you For a decade now you have lived and grown Gestating in my dreams late one night in 2009 you woke me and we began our journey together Thank you for that Thank you for becoming The lives you have touched are innumerable and not just the artists...
creative sustenance

creative sustenance

more determined than ever to use his solitude for creative sustenance Keats in so short a life just two decades and a breath he left behind nourishment for generations were we all as determined for determined he most definitely was despite illness, grave loss, and...

runon: perhaps it’s like that

riding my bike across town busily gently keeping myself moving so that the things moving through me would find space to travel I listened to the words in my ears through the buds to the beat of my heart in response to the knot in my belly untwist and unwind I listened...
there is a madness surely

there is a madness surely

yet what’s a girl to do? my eyes are no longer the eyes through which I’ve seen they vision elsewheres and othernesses I only dreamt of in my wildest imaginings. These eyes can not possibly be the eyes through which I’ve seen for they no longer allow...
runon: words and brushes

runon: words and brushes

the most profound realities of life are so easily victims of trivialization some answers are too deep and too close to our innermost being to be wrapped in human words when I see color I have to paint when I feel a brush my fingers tingle to draw it across the canvas...