In the spring of 2020, I was set to take my first plane ride in many years, and attend a writers’ retreat on Whidbey Island. I got a call, from my sister, and a forwarded email from our cousin, saying that many elders were dying of a virus. “It’s bad, do not come here”, sheContinue reading “Throwback Film: ‘Trail Medicine’, Disability Justice Trail Running, and awkward comments”
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“Looking for Datura” in Querencia Spring 2024 Quarterly
One of my favorite poems, about one of my favorite flowers. An elegant ditch weed, a mesmerizing creature you feel staring at you. How much time I spent hunting for that sound, and that glow. In Querencia Press’s Spring 2024 Quarterly Anthology.
“ Daylight // Nightlight” in New Words Press
“Daylight // Nightlight” started out as an exphrasis of Aesop Rock’s tandem songs, “Daylight” and “Nightlight”, written deep in pandemic isolation, but working, schooling and writing online. The comfort I felt when beamed into each others’ homes via the magical zoom tube contrasted heavily with the realization that I would most likely never actually physicallyContinue reading ““ Daylight // Nightlight” in New Words Press”
“Memory Box” in Querencia Press’s Not Ghosts but Spirits V
Memory Box is about a relationship that passes over a desire for children, choosing instead to focus on holding memories, like deep secrets. I started this poem at Juan Morales’s workshop at the 2020 Jackson Hole Writers Conference, where we wrote about recent dreams. Shortly after, I traveled to the north end of the spitContinue reading ““Memory Box” in Querencia Press’s Not Ghosts but Spirits V”
Poetry for Palestine: On Mosab Abutoha’s Charge to Make Art Now
The beginning of a series on Mosab Abutoha’s charge to write Poetry for and about Palestine
On Writing at Work: Publishing Love– not Cops!– in the Library
Almost a year ago to date, I published this piece in the Cooper Point Journal. Here is a short essay on the little events that lead up to it and followed it, the many continued layers that our work lives within, and is borne from. A year ago, I was working for the Evergreen StateContinue reading “On Writing at Work: Publishing Love– not Cops!– in the Library”
Plant Magic Spell Wheel
I share with you spell-wheel: a circular, visual kinesthetic Spellcraft tool, where you can record and channel your connections with this magical world into spells. All human and more-than-human kin is afoot with magical energy. The world is talking to us all the time, sometimes through silence, too. As we go listening through life, weContinue reading “Plant Magic Spell Wheel”
Fire Cider: Stoke Spring Flames
As the days grow longer, the earth turning its face more and more to the sun, the people around me are bugging and excited with Spring fever. A night owl and winter-lover, the return of the sun can actually be a challenging time for me, my body, mind, and heart struggle to keep up withContinue reading “Fire Cider: Stoke Spring Flames”
Ancestral Connection Practices: Sambuccus and beyond
Both in the magical and non-magical communities, intergenerational and ancestor healing is resurfacing. The “okay boomer” conversation that happened this Fall ignited feelings of frustration, anger, and reintegration across generational lines. Now we are being hit with a global catastrophe where our elderly are at a higher risk of crossing over, and we are reachingContinue reading “Ancestral Connection Practices: Sambuccus and beyond”
MoonLit Fern 