Leaving Our Little Home
There exists a partition — a cheeky one, winking at you from the middle of the room. I avoid making eye-contact with it lest it engages me in a conversation […]
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Ode to Ayahuasca (take it all)
Feel it all in pulsating visions of speeding and bleeding bursts of vibrating technicolor, amidst the intensifying beats and djembe drums amongst the Curandero, through the euphoria and happiness, we […]
Of Carl Sagan and our Naturalness`
For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love (Carl Sagan, 1985). And in the thickness of devilish horns, irrationality chew on your arrogant biochemistry, swallow […]
An egg inside Mother
My tongue slips out of my mouth I can no longer speak I call upon my mother to help me vocalize and as she held me close to her chest […]
The constellations above the Great Reef
The full moon kept us swaying, vibrating – all throughout that night. The tidal pull unto the magnificent ocean, stringing our movements along… And in the morning, the sea of […]
Love, wilderness, etc
Won’t you let me know, in your lucid dreaming, what you whisper in her ears at night? how long did you propose your forever to her, how deep did you […]
Part I
All of the mountains we carried proudly on our backs, we were only supposed to climb. And in our journey, we often regarded love as a measure between the point […]
These Voices
The voices The voice of a bride, sweet red lipstick The voice of the color blue The voice of past lovers The voice of a throbbing placenta The voice […]
Today I’ve become an angel I’ve no need for seeking now. I wish I could reach out to my brothers, and thank them for the seeds they’ve planted in my […]
Voyaging
We arise taking ourselves to the edge, where I can balance the force of inertia. The edge is so breathtaking branches of red tributaries, spewing like exoskeletons of leaves I […]
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