He walks thru the garden gate… and even the flowers – stop – to look at him… They purposefully scent the air and then turn their faces to smell him. Standing in the hallway – between the bedrooms – He presses up against her… She takes in his essence and a thousand kisses dot her… Continue reading Beowulf!
Category: Poetry
Sue, Sweet Sue
I am praying hard right now. I am ringing the bell and lighting incense in every room. You know who you are, – the ones who need it most… I spin my head in circles as I chant, “sssue… sssue… sssue…” I ring the bell 100 times. I am in deep mourning. This has struck… Continue reading Sue, Sweet Sue
I Surrender
Delving further into the cave… darker and darker, so dark, so quiet… with only the faint trickle of water coming from someplace within the cracks and crags. The soft moan of the Earth as it moves and revolves through space. It is alive and so it changes. Violent eruptions, storms of heat and wind, churning… Continue reading I Surrender
Durga’s Love
A mother’s love is naked reality the feminine simple lover of truth. Her love is my mother and your mother – inexhaustible affection – that never neglects her children no matter how heedless or rebellious they may be. A mother’s love is naked reality at the breast of human kindness… suckling the child when their… Continue reading Durga’s Love
Add a Son
They lay down beside the goddess as she labors in birth. This one, too, will be another girl… and another… until there is a sea of women with only a smattering of male children. No one knows why the men have become weak. Their phallus does not rise. There is but a meager offering of… Continue reading Add a Son