by Miriam Sagan “The sublime is patriarchal” Lucy Lippard Niagara Falls is Niagara Falls In morning mist Or lit at night In pastel carnival lights Edible colors of pink, lemon, aqua. Mad vertical of cliff And something bridal Veil of water, or honeymooners strolling The falls can simply Be turned off By […]
by Valentina Cano A childhood spent in weeds, pulling at mosquito wings for attention. Still, she rubs her elbows, smoothing wrinkles out for one instant, holding time back like tugging on a thread an intake away from snapping. She smiles at her newborn skin, tauter now than the day her mother pressed her out. Smoothing […]
by David Bowden David Bowden writes and performs for non-profits, activist movements, and youth conferences around the country. David is married and living in Oklahoma City, working as the Executive Director of the non-profit Give a Goat.
by Robin H. Lysne So this is what it’s like One moment fear the next vastness. Goals cease to be goals Instead a star-filled night fills me. Star Woman you are me now as you are every one. No fear now love no contraction now immensity I am a dark night full of stars Yet […]
by Stephen Lefebure The ones to come will have no need for prayer. Their spirits will ascend like smoke at night To track the constellations out of place. They will understand this pain we share, All this suffering we call all right, As the sacred in its deepest trace. Healing in some way we do […]
by Jim Price I am given back to night, cradled by soft curves in the Milky Way. The new moon reins in darkness, and I am free to dream the hidden Beauty, free to bask in the shadows of spirits. Companions of Soul unite! We are like a constellation of stars; mythic configurations connected at […]
by Ian Moore Bubbles in my being form and burst like soft drink fizz. Wave like ambrosia pummels my psyche. Honey bees drink from the eternal and pollinate my persona. Sipping on sweet savory soma the Gods have provided leftovers. Indulging in the indescribable dissolving into cosmic dissolution migrating from Maya to the All Mighty. […]
a summer solstice prayer by Mindie Kniss life-giving fire pour sundrops like rain. let us reflect your glow. enlighten our path as we flourish and grow. let us drink in your heat and eat from your hand as we sway in the breeze as you kiss our skin… wrap us up in light and insight […]
by Ashley Morgan I am Chaos Transcending from that first moment When One became a victim of a subjected extermination of attachment Defining the world through a simple word – Just a grouping of letters and sounds Wrapped around a concept When in its entirety is the utterance of death I am death Walking as […]
by Dean Miller A second day of grey. More rain; more solitude. My senses are soaking up what the droplets offer nearly as fast as the thirsty ground. Standing outside in the deluge, its another chance to look within. My system has been in overload mode. Now the rain; a steady beat on my face- A […]
