the sacred space where magic unfolds; deepening into self, leaning into acceptance and release; intuition as a guide, self trust as an anchor, feeling as the pulse; liminal.

It feels splitting

Bloody Bruised

inside out

Suffocation creeps

The weight of Tissue

Bone

Collapsing

Tender flesh Torn

Spirit brilliant

Armored for the heavens

Passing through time Languid

Half-way floating

we writhe

Bemoan The becoming

pain absolute

ripped from the womb, naked levity

Tethered to past and present

(My darling

how brightly you shine

Show me your scars

Let me caress them with

the sweetest balm)

Arrival

Rebuilt

Anew

Broken

Bare

Tender (in-between)

(top-bottom) robert mapplethorpe black book; irving penn dancer; carla williams tender; gordon parks arias in silence (rain clouds)