Articulations of Water

one of my first memories was the certainty
of the imprecision of words
diluting a vastness of feeling
into sounds given a predetermined meaning

words travel a galaxy from a mouth to an ear
lifetimes of experience in the space between
thickened with emotion-association-worlds

of culture in committed performance

there is a human urgency to be understood
coupled with little value for the gritty labor
of communicating what must be said

a return to the corporeal-
precision gives way
to the messiness of flesh
so I practice learning the language of water

Making Care

on making…

I woke up this morning and made a world

navigating space

accumulating chunks of mirrored recognition

into a personal anthology on becoming

jumbled, uneven, and dripping with a fragility

as bare-hearted and audacious as

a bee in pursuit of nectar

on care…

to become is to become with

there is nothing more alluring than a shared lived experience

pillars of hexagon-shaped certainty

malleable at the slightest caress of a wing

awakening to a capacity to cross-pollinate

practices of becoming

patchy, precarious care emerges in unlikely spores

this worldliness ebbs and flows with dizzying potential

and strikes exposed bodies sense-full

by how universal it is to make

honey amidst dust