In the gray we float above the trenches dug by factions of fiction.In the gray we meet,transmuting skull-bound matterinto bonds that matter more.In the graywe loveby lettinghearts seebeyond the face.
love
re/dissolve
When a question contains the core of the fear that compels it, forgive the child who contrived it ~ feel courage flicker into flame.
seams of seeming
A head and heart disconnected dismembers members ofseemingly distant worlds.Divided by streets or seas,houses or highways,parties or passions— separations of semblance maim with fear of loss. Semblance bears an underscore: for those divisions of secondhand seeming orpower-punctuated scheming ordeath-defined livingdare not dive belowtheir surfacebound reflections.Depth deliversdignity, rememberedand in recognition ofour connected consciousness.
coastward
Eyes alight before the dawn, from wheels to wings — again I’m gone. Across the country, delayed but undaunted, arriving optimistic and severely exhausted — I sink sweetly into sea glass and brawn.
timing
How do you love in a present with no future? do you imagine a different future, or do you pretend you live in a different present?
taught and tinkered
“Top down love,” she summarized her past – and a switch sizzled upright. Love commanded and conformed to the order of elders who grew in different soils. Bottom up love: provokes an expression, a moan, a tear – mutually maddening and exclusive to two, cosmically bound, ineffably and in gratitude.
Bouncing By
The Beatles’ album Rubber Soul guides us through the peaks and trials of a relationship with love – not with a person but with love itself. What is love? How do you define it? How do you know when you feel it? Why do we convince ourselves love is there, or could be, or was? … Continue reading Bouncing By
Species of Value 