February 5, 2023 FULL MOON November 2019 The woman lies on the flattened boulder, the boulder where she would lay naked under the dappled sun in her younger years, witnessed only by the leafed out Grandmother Oaks, Black Birches, while the Witch Hazel leaned over her. And there she would pleasure herself. But…Continue readingAncestors
It is November and the demons have arrived with the winds, the falling leaves and with the remembered events of the November Allan began to leave me due to his undiagnosed brain tumor. It is a hard month, my body remembers. It being the second year doesn’t make it easier, it makes it all the…Continue readingEnter the Demons
Oh Holy Mother Oh Beloved one who shone through the yellowing birch leaves, your pink rising light Raising them to a Holy offering to the morning Do I weep Mother or be in Awe of such beauty I miss him I miss Allan Your beauty pierces me to my tender core And I miss him…Continue readingOh Holy Mother
New Moon, January 21, 2023July 2019 This woman speaks to coyote, they gather around her in her dreams. Or they used to until she became bereft and forgot about them. But they did not forget her, loyal, they are her Spirit pack. Her wails of grief call them to her, they circle and sniff her…Continue readingWild Love
Dark Moon – December 23, 2022May 2019 Anticipating company, the relief of losing herself to the painting, and chocolate, she makes her way through the fog in her mind, the pain in her heart to the painting studio. This is where the one who paints and the one who grieves, like the miracle of cell…Continue readingImplacable Wheel
Full Moon – January 6, 2023May 13, 2019 The painter lays out the now lonely paths he had so loving revealed on the land. Paths moving around stones and trees. Sinuous, meandering. Limbs stacked into what he called boats, a foreshadowing of the boat that would carry him away from her. He walked the paths…Continue readingAscending