Grief is quite strange, like a prism.It splits and it flares the light of love. Some days your heart beams with pure gratitudethat radiant soul was even in your life for so long. But other days, something as simple as waking up long before the suncan spiral you into memories that smell like lavender and … More Resplendent: Poetry#7
I am a mystic and a miracle worker,a soulgazer who loves the night for its depth and richness.I will find a song inside you and tease it out in fits of laughter, until there is a ribbon that binds us long after our palms clasp for the final time.I could catch the moon if I … More Variegate: Poetry #6
I felt the impact. A deluge of glassLit into my skin,Jagged mosquitosSlaking their thirst.I saw the muzzle flashAnd heardAn impossible BANG.Then againAnd overAnd once more,Your bodyBeside mineRipplingWith every foul jolt. I’ve never seen you dance like this.The starkness of itThe sheer terrorAlmost makes me laugh.How did we get here?Trapped between a stalled pastAnd a future … More Tangerine: Poetry #5
Your arrival to this world brought great pain,And now so too does your departure.I see your smiling faceIn the expanse of blueImagine the same strong handsThat chopped coconuts in halfCradling my motherAnd her siblingsWishing I could feel that warm embraceJust one more time.Where is that robust laugh now?That easy sense of humor,Your tenacity even until … More Abuelo: Poetry #4
17 years ago today, I was sitting in a 6th grade science class when our teacher got word there had been an attack. She turned on the TV and my class watched as the second tower fell. I remember a sense of horror gripping my chest like a straightjacket. My dad still lived and worked … More Always My City
The Deepest Beauty: Your pain has touched me in a deep place because you were wefted into my heart when I was still a child. There was a song in your eyes that I never could decipher. Something wild and wise and hungry for adventure. Those eyes of wonder will never shine upon this world … More The Deepest Beauty
You caught me off-guard Nervous, nurturing, sincere Pursuing as if failure wasn’t a concern So ready to claim me as your own Captivated by all the flaws I thought made me undesirable A storm had ravaged my heart And I wondered what could ever grow there But my, how spring came so quickly These tender shoots that blossom … More Suddenly: Poetry #3
“You have such a good head on your shoulders.” “I never have to worry about you. You’re one of the good ones.” “You would never do something like that. You’re so mature.” None of the above are negative comments. In fact, they were spoken as compliments. My entire life, I’ve been praised for being grounded. The smart … More Skyward
I don’t remember this, but I heard the story countless times growing up and it resonates now, a shining image in my mind: Once, when I was just shy of three years old, I jumped into my aunt’s swimming pool. I didn’t know how to swim. I didn’t even have floaters on. I just jumped in and proceeded to … More May We Suffer Well
My whole body is alive with the electricity of words zipping down my spine to be liberated in my limbs. There are pages turning in my mind, blown ever faster by the winds of revelation and surrender and hope. A star is pulsing high above, and a galaxy is spinning deep within. Another veil is … More Proliferate: Poetry #2
Desert Radiance 