Worries

Worries
“only the good die young”
Got me worried
Fine line
How much wicked
Keep me here?
Refining equations
Don’t want no spurious correlations

Pehiw 2022

The Truth that is you

“But a truth that don’t change is a truth to befriend” Boy and Bear

How to let go?
Old truths
Need burying
How we gonna do it?
Seems like everything concrete

We forget
Where to gather
When to put down medicines
How to give
Receive
The interplay of respect
Relation
Trusts rooted in soil
Ceremony in a casserole dish
As we set out extra plate
Care for a neighbor
Share a burden
Hold a truth

That don’t change
Let it entrance you
Let it wind through your blood
Let it patch your wounds
Till new flesh grows,
You know
Stronger even as the aches
Befriending that truth
That held you firm
In the darkest time
That truth that is you

Pehiw – Wandering 2022

The sea is not always blue where the strong women live

Battle and birth

The sea is not always blue where the strong women live

Sometimes red blood

Battle and birth

Entwined in ceremony

All emptied out

Sometimes black

Ours/theirs

Chest heavy hurts

Grow veins

To new organs

Kitchen Wisdom

Sometimes purple

Kitchen wisdom

Hope nurtured

Sinuous emergence

Roots to possibilities

“strength” is a multi-faceted gem

Of tears

Of giving up

Of bone deep tired

Of grandmothers, mothers and aunties

Of care

Of renewal

Of struggle

Of surviving one more night

Sinking deep into being enough.

--Nanabjorn (Preparing 2022)