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Hotel California

A swooning rocked through her chest, letting the music course over her skin as she sang along. “You can check in anytime you like, but you can never leave.” Fyrn’s hips swayed as she mumbled the melody. She dove into the malaise of smoke and noise in the dimly lit space, tension dissipating. The heat of her embarrassment faded under the pretense of having a good time, rather than care what her voice sounded like above the murmur of the crowd. 

from October 13, 2025

Note for Cat Ladies

This poem is inspired by a letter I sent a friend in response to her reflections under current political circumstances. The world suddenly feels dangerous and foreign with bullies gaining power. I say, let them have their victories. We are in a spiritual revolution and love will always win.

from November 11, 2024

Recipe for Necromancing

This is a tale of a middle aged woman who lived in a forest alone. She was a lightworker in the darkness who cast her words of wisdom and healed death’s kiss. Someone who revived the beating of an inanimate heart once again. It is about the spells of a necromancer whose cat came back from the ugly brink of death breathing, to once again walk this earthly place. But something brought back from the dead, doesn’t return the same. 

from October 21, 2024

Earth Bones: Poetry Book Review

There is an artful delicacy with which the author, Richard Taylor, brings me as a reader of his book, into his rural world. A place where the priority of caring and the acceptance of an inoculate fate of frailty and mortality are inherent in being alive. I found myself sprawled on my bed, in the mid-afternoon sunlight spilling through the large windows of my pine encased bedroom with my one-eyed cat, reading aloud the typed lines on these aesthetically thought-provoking pages as Debussy played on an LP in another room.

from September 26, 2024

Riveren

Open our hearts to the wild mysteries of freedom. Let go of this captivity held tight in our fists. Let go of land waiting to be reclaimed by its tribes. Restore a natural balance to these special places. Let go and allow our river to truly truly be wild and free.

from June 6, 2024