Author: Beth Maiden

PMT grief & rage doll

dora found a rabbit
near the tip

it is not a friendship,
not a business transaction,
not a love affair,
not a baby.

or, devotion will ask difficult things of you. devotion means they are worth doing. November retreat 23/new year 24

do not underestimate
the space i will claim.

on any given night
whether the moon be bright
and fat
or a shadow of herself

Words: Octavia E Butler

oh, i could tell it so many ways.

i'm here. i have not moved yet. i am afraid to.

i breathed
with him barely
sipping the pale air

it is the day the spiders hatched.

you will not find it by name or number.

1. 2.

once more with feeling:

[bellowing] you do not have to be good

branta came that night. paddled right up beside her in a tree-trunk canoe, offering a name.