“I’ve been writing for lifetimes.”

Working with words has always been something deeply connected to my sense of passion and curiosity. For the last decade+, I’ve worked with humans from around the world, of all ages, at different stages in their lives in cultivating their authentic creative expression through the written word. It has been incredible and illuminating. 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, fiction short stories, embodied poetry, and whatever else I want to present. Please enjoy.

I recently debuted my first book — a poetry collection. Check out “Poetry and the immediate: A collection of sensed spaces”, and enjoy your perusal.

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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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On Grace, Embodiment, and Being Divinely Human

“Because I may never feel quite perfect, but may always hold the desire to achieve perfection deeply within me, the process of intentionally living in grace is upheld as a tenet of the Self I am becoming through this process of shedding — of transformation.”

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6/18/2021

“The inner world was calling for my softness — my surrender. My old methods of constant pushing and doing were no longer effective. My process and practice of expression had shifted.”

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