so, thanks to a blast from the past
i have been freed of the shackles and blindfold that i had put on myself.


i did not know i was free.


how could i have missed that important point?
i've come too far to go back now (that first step is a doozie)
so don't look for me where i was.


you can now find me where I am.

you are the green elm leaves in summer
new, you are crisp as filo dough
old, you are as soft as well-worn leather
i will rub my hands with honey
and run through the marble lobbies of banks
i will dance for you, strung like a jester
with coins tinkling
come to me, come to me, come!
i will not keep you in a dark trust fund
i will not chain you to labor the mortgage
or chain you to clanging stock issues
but i will let you wander free as an alley cat
i will turn you out of your c... read more

open vessel
spilling cherished contents
exhaling breath
leaving only "YES"
the journey begins
wise women
invoke dawns bloom
beautiful family spills love into my heart
healers help refill the chalice with light
open and softened
i am now ready to birth

"You need not do anything. Remain sitting at your table and listen. You need not even listen, just wait. You need not even wait, just learn to be quiet, still, and solitary. And the world will freely offer itself to you unmasked. It has no choice; it will roll in ecstasy at your feet."
Franz Kafka, *The Great Wall of China*