It’s a steep one, the learning curve of love: an asymptote alway reaching for the vertical axis but never quite, never just quite there. My curve lifted visibly off the horizontal when I finally hit the wall on treasuring myself through my lovers’ eyes so far above and beyond my own. It’s just too painful. …
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My dog has fleas
I was haggling over a bit of purple bridesmaid dress with a Reno housewife at a free boutique in Black Rock City. All of a sudden Maria Mango walked up, carrying a ukulele. She sang, “love is sumthin’ if you give it away, you keep on gettin’ more..” And when that moment returned to my …
How to ask for help
One time I was hitchhiking up the Sunshine Coast.My strategy was to spy out a likely victim in a ferry line or at a gas station, and then approach them for a ride. I noticed that more often than not, drivers would go miles out of their way to deliver me safely to my destination. …
Procreation meditation
My period was almost three weeks late. It got me thinking. I thought I was reconciled to my offspringless state, at peace with that decision. But as days ticked by, crampless and dry, a fetal image formed in my head. I really didn’t want to be pregnant…but if I was… well hey! in less than …
In Roberts Creek on the Day out of Time
Set Time free to spin and spiral as it will. I am so tired, of confining Time. In charts and lines, in boxes and tiny jewelled cages strapped to the wrist’s pulsing vein. It restricts intuition, impairs telepathy, inhibits life’s flow. My belly knows suppertime, my eyelids know bedtime, my body feels the passage of …