The Queen of Hearts has always been my wild card. Believing in a beneficent Universe, and a Conspiring God, I always play the cards I’ve drawn. For you, then my Love, I hold and remain.

Brother’s voices laughed. Shouting, “sink or swim”, little sister! Throwing me off the red, red raft. No ground to depend upon. Panic set in! Then instinct. Tiny feet flowered. Finding pink petals. That paddled and propelled. Forward toward shore. Touching ground and grace. Gulping, gasping lightly grasping. For heavenly earth and air. How lovely to…

I wish I had eight arms to hug you in a way where two arms simply won’t do I’d wrap one arm around your shoulders the second around your neck I’d caress and twirl your hair with the third one for fun the fourth would snuggle your elbow next followed by the fifth around your…

In the face of something new My face now takes a different view I’m the luckiest girl alive, I survived I got better, And now when my overthinking mind Won’t let me be, I take hold of her Firmly but more gently than before, And I ask her to back off To relent, I tell…

Forgive me. I may have drowned you  in my words, a torrential river of rapids  rushing frothy and fast. I need to throw you back. On the banking, in silence. Like the fish you catch   at the edge of that quiet lake. Admired, measured, gasping   until released,   back in a flash to…

So you speak to me of sadness, The fear that is within you now that seems to never end. You are a child of the universe, no less then the trees and stars: you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding…

When I found you how could I know how profoundly you would change my life everything I’d been denying hiding came to the fore something about you kindness combined with beauty intelligence grace just what I’d been searching for I promised myself I wouldn’t pine obsess or chase too late old pattern repeating past mistakes…

Whirlpool Steepness Body burning It has to be this way Those who wait Source of all strength Good pleasure Might pay Years of wisdom Dig out the File Just go to the Slope.

A new beginning The true force Here she goes Again Ms. Dynamite Her faith is a Heart light Promise sweet An open door Courage Bravely Blunt truth Honesty Peace with joy She deploys Harmonious toys World to come The true force Unicorns Imagine Do it out loud High from a cloud Weep and howl Here…

There is sadness in this body. Came in unexpectedly. Through, distorted words delusions and Ignorance. Why such insecurity? Wounding innocent intentions with ego defenses. The mind let’s go. The heart remembers. Reveals and may heal. Classism, shows up pulls down. Turns us around. We are all part of the same ground.