ideas for a new earth

Word of the Moon: Shed

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Retreat from Urgency: Healing the frantic mind

Breath moves inward, warming as it comes. A single moment of high tension, and air sweeps along tiny hairs in an exodus from my body. A...

Missives from the Earth: Matron of the Bogs

Part of a collection capturing the voices of the earth, and their response to the press of humanity. Written in conversation with...

a poem: advection

sedge sways windways, its flowers drop and blow swallows wallow, swooping windward, to where the bluestem grows. the city inside is...

Word of the Moon: Order

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Mystery made material: on loving despicable things

How do we love despicable things? The fly that brings disease, the soiled hand, the rotting heap. Disgust can be a survival mechanism...

Word of the Moon: Advocacy

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The universe in a single okra

Who do I thank when I eat an okra? I thank the plant which birthed it, and my body which tended and welcomed each leaf and flower. I...