On this page are some of my own words, inspired by life, created to inspire life and all its meaningful possibilities into manifestation. Here, you’ll find poetry, nonfiction, creative + experimental nonfiction, short stories, and embodied poetry. Please enjoy.

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A story on ancestry…

“We are all blood. We are all the river.

We are breath. We are air.

We are ugly. We are beauty.

We are life. We are God. “

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…to allow life and to be blessed by the passage of time.

“Maybe, one day in the future, I will be seated with a soft belly and soft limbs remembering how I played with time when my desire would eat me alive. And I will likely laugh a laugh one laughs when they know themselves too well.”

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Blood of this tree

“What does transmutation mean, you ask? […] It is to remain rooted while you die and rise again.”

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Poetry in the pain

“Poetry is the multiorgasmic / experience of life, devoid of trying. / It is to sense the rising tide, heart full / with anticipation and mirth and abandonment. / And wild abandon. For nothing can stop the flow.”

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Honor the story; honor life.

“If I close my eyes, I see my body, painted in blue luminescence, pulsing excitedly with light and ready to radiate the everythingness of this life, of this love, onto a page. The page will always listen. But let me tell you, dear reader, the page listens when I honor the story. When you honor the story.”

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Permeate

“There's something slippery about my sexy. / Something soft about my strength.”

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What does it mean to be "love"?

“And so as I reflect on the journal entry that prompted this cognition — and metacognition — I think of love as a kind of knowledge.”

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La levedad del ser

“Our friend, the moon / Dances with us / Challenging the dense viscosity of our spirits / To loosen, lengthen, flow / Flow is life.”

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What a pleasure

“What a pleasure to transcend the ego, even if only for a bit. / To revel in the pure consciousness of my being; / to explore life in this body / to explore what it means to love in this body…”

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