Earth Day
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.
GOLD AT THE END OF THE POEM
Robert Bly believed gold in a fairytale presaged a happy ending. I believe for poetry too.
MY FARMERS' MARKET: 2009
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.
RECOGNITIONS
How contact with a little being—a hummingbird connects you to the world. In times of grief and rage connections like this can bring solace and space for action.
Press play to listen to audio of me reading RECOGNITONS and scroll down to see the whole poem.
A GIFT AND WINGS
These poems were a gift to me: A whole different way of relating to insects.
From our book, EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with artist, Deidre Scherer.
MORNING
A groggy mind can take you into different experiences.
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A poem from EVERYDAY MERMAID. A collaborative poetry art book I created with artist Deidre Scherer.