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It’s simple. We are nature. To love her is to love ourselves. The more we feel this, the easier it becomes to fight for her. Happy Earth Day.
A poem from EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with the artist, Deidre Scherer.
My daughter birthing her first baby, herself as a mother, and me as a grandmother.
This was written soon after my grandson’s birth. Have you ever had so much joy suddenly come into your life that you were afraid to hold it?
Summertime 2009. This poem was written in a different time. My heart hurts at the enormity of ongoing greed, duplicity, violence, and hate, which has been revealed and multiplied since then. Take some sustenance from simple pleasures and connections recounted in this poem. They still exist in our country. They will help our hearts. They will help us stay juicy for the long task of freeing our nation and our people from deliberate enslavement.
Change and joys of aging.
Press play to listen to audio of me reading PLEASURES OF THE FLESH… and scroll down to see the whole poem.
Press play to listen to audio of me reading RECOGNITONS and scroll down to see the whole poem.
From our book, EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with artist, Deidre Scherer.
A surprise.
Press play to listen to audio of me reading AN IRIS… and scroll down to see the whole poem.
An unexpected oneness with trees.
Supporting a juicy spring.
A groggy mind can take you into different experiences.
A poem from EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with artist Deidre Scherer.