green flecks of dreamy deep dreams… — I didn’t just see the Vegas bling where lights, camera, action are the thing that makes the American dream or makes them dream of the dream because I had a dream wasn’t just a dream No, really, it was spoken and although we are broken we can be repaired like the…

there on the yoga mat are all the things you can take back… — I found what I was looking for on my lost yoga mat. It was buried in the basement (lost in the move) Carelessly thrown into a hockey bag. “I need to find my yoga mat,” I would say. Then another day and another day would pass. Sometimes I had an…

a love poem — I always wanted to be like Suzanne feeding men tea and oranges by the river like a siren or one of Cohen’s lovers shacked up in Hydra like the Paris ex-pats buzzing around abstract words and images. But then that would somehow mean that I would also be in love…

Burned by the fire — “My love is blind can’t you see my desire?” — Janet Jackson She was like a moth to a flame getting burned by the fire no name or shame just looking for a soul connection but instead, she met projections and protections And even when she knew she was getting…

A poem — June is for being loud for being loud and proud for standing out from the crowd for wearing your sex on your sleeve for knowing when to leave for waving the rainbow flag for using your voice to lift others June is for brothers and sisters lovers and friends family…

A poem — I feel sexy when I step and stay in my power I feel sexy when I invite and allow the wind to caress me I feel sexy when I breathe and inhale slowly and steadily I feel sexy when I wear and own black lace fingerless gloves I feel sexy…

I want to want the unwanted. — I painted my nails a fluorescent pink and my toes a fluorescent peach because no one else is doing it and it makes me happy. Like the time I wore lime green to prom that was when fluorescent strobe lights and rave clothes were brightly dipped like fun dip to…

A poem — When rain drops keep falling on my head like every word that was ever said and ever cried or was crying and ever lied or was lying and ever died or was dying… But as long as you’re trying your best right? (What if your best just isn’t good enough?) …