During Queen season we contemplate and embody the themes of her archetypal wisdom. One of her themes is sovereignty. Sovereignty means the authority to self-govern, a serious independence, a resistance to outside influence, a personal purity. Unpollutable. For example, a “sovereign …
Poetry
the Queen’s report
Each year for Queen season and Summer Solstice I write a poem from a bird's eye view. You're invited to write one, too. breathless from the climb, heart thumping, I look. more accurately, I see. from way up here, I can see how things are; the truth. I see a once-abandoned …
winter day
a poem inspired by the remaining days of Dreaming season. winter day It's 7 degrees.Rhododendron leaves hang brittle and black, rolled tightlike chandelier crystals,like fairy charms dangling from the trees along the river.Even the air feels brittle,crisping my lungs as I breath …
sword mothers
A year ago, I wrote to you about "sword mothers". I'm sending it again as a preamble to the poem about Patti Smith, one of mine. I watch a lot of TV. It’s a quintessential Piscean escape tactic, but it’s also fodder for my imagination. I was watching a show one day, and a character …
getting here
Once upon a time I was a theater kid. Then I was a college student studying literature. Then I was a massage therapist, an aromatherapist, a ritualist, and, I guess, "witchy". And now I'm 49 with yet another version, fresher. I spent Queen season scanning my life from this …