the echoes

Justice

is complaining, complaining, complaining until our voices break. Until the mighty and bright and hopeful energy dies down, in either the pace of an eternal trickle or fiery burst. But… more

Justice

Detour

I haven’t floated in the seaThe sun hasn’t burned my fleshMy tongue has forgotten the sweetness of fruitsIn what feels like a decadeYet the noise,The noise has always made me… more

Detour

Understand (unsolicited) advice. Understand anger and other forms of violence. Understand assembling (and disassembling too). Understand attention. Understand beasts and breasts. Understand blame game. Understand blues and other colors. Understand… more

CAPTURING (UN)CERTAINTIES

Love

We must unlearn the mountains, the ranges to see the textures and curvesThe color of the Earth and the birth of the skiesAnd come to know that it is an… more

Love

Grounding

I want to pay attention.But at times, the attention runsLike a son away from his motherLike threads of a 13-year old knit sweaterMy mother used to wear.Now, it is hugging my bodyOn… more

Grounding

The waves and the watermelon and the turtlesOffer themselves up to usPure, salty, and wildTo meet our loneliness and our angerOur fragmented selves. The tide retreats for a while,To set… more

Rebirth

are you afraid to close your eyeswhen demons start emergingout of the closet, out of the trunks of treesout of your repressed anger,out of the silenceyou can’t standout of their… more

Rebirth

Forgive

In a world dipped in, brushed on by mistakes In which form does forgiveness appear? Is it like poetry? How does it feel? As basic as the sun? Or the… more

Forgive

Fall in love for five more minutes… Do you smell smoke? Your flesh burns a little, Sit with the pain, Stay, fall in love A few minutes more Please Endure… more

Gratitude

Were you kind? Did you pay attention? Were you burning with your passions? Did you shout to the stranger when he squeezed himself in on the subway? Did you avoid… more

Gratitude

Manifest

scribble poems on the streets of Paris, smudge the bitterest tears on the page as they flow down your face. eyelids closed, slowly lift up your head under the sweeping… more

Manifest

The leaves talked to me yesterday, of what life could smell, what we could breathe on the other side of the world. As they wriggled, teased, danced with the wind,… more

In Time, Freedom

there is something, anything, which takes time. time to shout and time to shut up. time to prepare the tomatoes, wash them on the sink, slice into their skins, throw… more

In Time, Freedom

Distance

A place is like a person. A person is like a place. I have landed, and, I had this deep, deep longing to return even before landing. You unwrapped, removed,… more

Distance

What if You have 571 miles to cast loose Yet there is no one to get lost with Only silence Between the front seats. more

Let Go

It’s hard to own something you’re not sure you own – dreams socks lovers landscapes emotions skies drawings petals rhymes heartbeats – In a moment, they perish. In a lifetime,… more

Let Go

Oceans

circled in, vacuumed, lostin this tanglenessclouds, cravings, chatter, vines let me know when you arrivei am everywhere in this fence, i stand andfrom my palms slip the odds and endsi… more

Oceans

A quiet hunger for the wildA wilder hope for lifetimesThey say it’s a shot in the darkI say it’s a shot in the blinding light more

Changes

I once had a dreamIt was all I ever wantedI thought it mightexplode any momentAnd then it didI exploded with itAnd then we were gone more

Changes

Chemistry

it must be built it must be a source of strength it must be mixed it must be quantified and not quantified it must hurt like a failure it must… more

Chemistry

Do you want to know what I’m thinking right now? I think of you everyday, as if you’re mine to think. But anyway, thoughts are unwinding in the wind, and… more

Capacities

If you can’t feel the spine and roots and calm and circle of the people who surround you, build it, become that inclusive embrace of warmth, gather up the energy and… more

Capacities

Organic

Have you touched seen tasted it Glass in between Have you felt the energy of things as it was The night before They come to me, like moths attracted to… more

Organic

Sea foam that ragesbelow my feetNoRather white wavesthat weepQuietly, smoothly, under the undisturbingglare of the afternoon sun NightUntil I sought a spaceinsideUntil this woman whispered her shantiUntil his vulnerable voice… more

Rain

Savaged the glass window And gloried in its broken pieces And sharpness On the floor, the pile of broken pieces Took them all Like precious, delicate shells, cupped them inside… more