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Foresting

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020March 8, 2019Leave a Comment on Foresting

It stands to reasonMother Earth never intended for wildfires in their heat and their rage,to be the main attraction. For it is their ashes,the fertile by-product,that will feed new life. Likewise, then, my heartas it swells upand into my mind,is building new channels,new awakenings,making forestsout of my pain.

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True Birth Weight

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020March 1, 2019Leave a Comment on True Birth Weight

Let your lifetime erodeyour superficialityyour weights and measuresyour black and white thinkingyour duality. Let your body return to dust,not of the Earthbut of the starsSo that when you are born again,they will measure your sparkle,forgetting the cold, meaninglesscounter scale in the corner.

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Nature’s Song

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020February 15, 2019Leave a Comment on Nature’s Song

Perhaps the worm knowsthe songbird’s decaying boneswill feed her own daughtersfor generations to come. Maybe she willingly sacrifices herselfto its melody:A cadence we all knowbut choose to forget.

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Weeping on a Clear Day

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020February 7, 2019Leave a Comment on Weeping on a Clear Day

Grief is not limited to the months After funerals. The psychic corpses that litter my mind outweigh the physical corpses I have held in my hands. These corpses can include — Letting go of the sister I always wanted First years of life stolen by depression No soft hands on my back as a child …

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I Will Teach Her to Remember

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020February 1, 2019Leave a Comment on I Will Teach Her to Remember

A quick search reveals thatJanet and Condoleezza never marriedand never had children. So I traded their blazers for aprons. This choice, my choice, is conscious.My womb was built for this job:raising healers, creatives, and lovers. Raised by Murphy Brown and Oprah,you told me I have to choose.So I choose them, all three of them. Even my …

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When You Are Thirsty

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020January 31, 2019Leave a Comment on When You Are Thirsty

Like a new day dawning Morning dew glistening The rainbows of light glimmer through my windows at sunrise I take a deep breath I exhale I am at peace To dance wildly and intimately With my pain As it continues to haunt me As it pounds on my door, And to know truly It is …

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Patchwork Patterns

by Christina Dupdated on April 24, 2020January 24, 2019Leave a Comment on Patchwork Patterns

Patchwork Patterns I once told a wise woman about some unhealthy patterns I’d fallen into. A week later she came back with this: instructions to draw straight lines, then curvy lines, then circles, then stars. “Just follow what your hand wants to do.” So I did. It was chaos.Then she told me to look at …

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On Transitions

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020January 24, 2019Leave a Comment on On Transitions

Is it the loss you feelOr the fear of this societyThe one that paints rooms in blueand pink huesPuts people in boxesFor safety and comfort If you do not fear lossThrow some milk weed in the gardenWatch as the seasons shiftFrom dark to light From winter to springAnd ask the monarchAs it soars in the …

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My Spirit Does the Heavy Lifting

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020January 17, 2019Leave a Comment on My Spirit Does the Heavy Lifting

There are but 2 people with whom I trust my darkness. When I am in that fitful state I have come to know As I thumb through that list Looking for someone to call My name does not appear. The I that is entangled In he said/she said, Judgment, Loneliness, 1 am thoughts racing in …

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A Warrior Child

by Christina Dupdated on January 27, 2020January 5, 2019Leave a Comment on A Warrior Child

I keep thinking she’s dead The little girl who manages Directs and protects the spiritual direlects She keeps popping up On long drives With the right song After the holidays When the dishes are clean And the family has left She shows up again and again I wrestle her in fits Insisting I don’t need …

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