I tried to keep the fire burning Clumsy fingers in the dark but all the breath is nothing without fuel enough and spark So I gathered up...

What was done That I must heave fire Great shuddering gasps in the pre-dawn light. Sloughing spiritual flesh in kundalini de Composition...

It all began at once I'm told Time unfolding timeless and each every where everywhere So small you could hardly call it real A seed...

My mother used to give me t-shirts to wear to bed Too large for the tiny life they contained They fell about me loose and ill-fitting Our...

A prayer is not so much words As a desperate plea to creation To love the creature it has made and say "Beloved, your need was a gift,...

I was always too hungry To myself For morning. A smile is always so easy to say And when hands reached out to hold me I returned them...

Days array in winding paths, curving out of sight Ahead and Behind Not a one left behind Turning back is merely forward in disguise I...

Starving child, heedless orphan, a need becomes quest becomes sword Your romance, your love, now a storm on the wind Just thunder and...

And some days you are rippling gold Flowing heavy with the weight of your truth Innocent and cruel, in that endless august way May you...

Your words touched my soul like gossamer wine Shame less end But Dionysus drunk I sang Knowing Not caring How the revel would rip-feast...

Her eyes were twin moons, Sharp as sickles Made for hope And her face was the autumnal night. She gave names to the sorrows Forgotten by...

And my heart beat steady doldrums in an endless tundra way The grooves upon my hands were dusty beams. I folded them in swans and swords...

On time's own edge and balanced tight In twilight and in dawn Where epilogue bleeds into start, What violent drums compose my heart?

Da'as arrives like a wind Shaking loose the dust of ancient tools Touching every part of the city "I know you" And I am known. Every...

Through tears that washed away the walls and left bare her fields unsown. In words worn tired in secret places and flattened gallows...

I used to think in math and lines What divides and what subtracts Love was a structure and Euclid ruled Its strength was matter and facts...

Its a terrifying thing to be loved Truly loved. To know that someone is willing to take everything they are and everything they might be...

I think that I am sick of love At least, of adoration I am spent On desperate expectations My dear one please Tear down the temple Hold...

How close the ice is How serene The boundless solitude of motedom Unmoved by light of day But glaciers rise on rivers run Tiamat sighs...

You must become strong to stomach your own weakness A paradox is a pulling a part What remains in its wake? Can it love? Can you love it?...