Monthly Archives: June 2025

Fractured Images

Posted on June 9, 2025 by J

There is always a burden, of course–a sadder or heavier side to all the ecstatic dancing–a wound to the healer, a spider bite to the heel. Something, in us or in the universe, requires balance. Dancing was never an escape … Continue reading →

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The Lovers Encore

Posted on June 9, 2025 by J

After sharing the texts of One Week of Nights and Days, I realized that the story of The Lovers would lend it more meaning to most readers, and recalled that I had already told the story of that life-altering vision … Continue reading →

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One Week of Nights and Days

Posted on June 6, 2025 by J

I have spoken of kundalini–that is what runs through all this work. The following pieces are very special to me because of the circumstances that brought them. Pamela was a local midwife who had never had children. I first heard … Continue reading →

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Standing, Look to the End

Posted on June 6, 2025 by J

When I was a girl, Swinburne became my favorite poet because his sounds and rhythms were headlong, and because I sensed a powerful erotic mystery behind his words. He was a publicly professed atheist, but his poems were so pagan … Continue reading →

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