The moment I heard Rubin say this, I knew it was true. Allow anything counter to this to drop away. Stay centered in this truth as you create - and you can accomplish anything.
Diatomaceous Earth
So many steps we've taken
on this thread bare carpet
where you grew up, left home
and then returned, saying - incredulous
“I can't believe you're still here, Mom.”
Weeds
sometimes it feels as if
my thoughts are weeds
obscuring the sky
of possibility
i must continually remember to
shift focus, to rest out in
the vast open
Sarah Thomson
You Can Call Me Ma'am
Having turned forty-two, having menstruated
lo these thirty years, most often
on my hands and knees or curled, drugged
and sobbing, around the hot water bottle.
We know what we need
Follow that thread. Don’t give up.
Healing The Mare
Just days after the vet came,
after the steroids that took
the fire out of the festering
sores--out of the flesh that in
the heat took the stings too
seriously and swelled into great
welts, wore thin and wept, calling
more loudly out to the green-
headed flies - I bathe you
and see your coat returning,
your deep force surfacing in a
new layer of hide: black wax
alive against weather and flies.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.