Love’s Native Tongue

by Kathleen MacGregor What would Love say? You ask With open jaw Open throat Heart tenderly opening Belly All the way down Rippling Open O O Love would say, Hello Beyond hello Words subtract When Love would speak Search not for words Words are not Love’s native tongue So listen deeply Move inside Would Love wiggle? Slide? Dance? Weep? Fall to the ground? Feel Love Let Love move you And listen To the wordless...read more

Potluck

Oh! There I go again… Thinking that there’s no place, in the world, Where I fit in. Where is my true home? Where should I live? How far must I travel before I find my people, my town? There I go again… Down the road of tears and fears About being alone and what is wrong with me That I don’t fit in anywhere? So I ask myself, “Well, what do you bring to the table? What do you have to offer?” I look at...read more

We Circle Sending Emerging

We Circling around the moment Sending out energy streams like tentacles to touch The moment emerging. To touch each other and ourselves in that Emerging moment. Energy streaming from all the hearts We all witness the pulling out of that thread. We all pull Out through the throat of one of us From way deep down- And every one here Is drawing the thread. Wanting the pictures that are painting themselves To be seen...read more

Opening the Door

I fall asleep and find a door. I open that door and John is there Telling me about Heart and appearing slightly ragged. I feel afraid. Once, I opened the door and there was the man with the beard Who had been a snarling, stinking wolverine Just moments before- stalking me. Me and my sister terrified through the jungle Only to say “You have  a lot to learn from fear.” And once, I opened the door And...read more

Bestowing Her Grace

by Michele Rocha You’re lucky I’m so fucking evolved or you would be dead by now My well-mannered cultured well-bred Lady would not risk the scandal of having the town stumble over your rotted dismembered body in the garage freezer That’s what the dragon me wants To wreak havoc on your ordered world To undo that princely reflection To crumble your foundations And burn off your too cool Façade Down to its...read more