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Beltane 2013 – union and loneliness
Beltane fell on a Wednesday this year. It’s my favorite holiday, but even though it is a holiday of union, this year it leaves me feeling rather lonely. On Sunday I’d intended to rise early and make the trip across the river … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, politics, race and class, religion and spirituality, writing
Tagged beltane, bisexuality, boston poetry, cambridge, cambridge ma, community, current events, glbt, human rights, loneliness, on being a queer poet, paganism, poetry, politics, queer, relationships, religion, society, union, unitarian universalism, workshops
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the plant reaches toward the light
marigold meant for marriage by the front door — for luck – grows leggy and strange in its pursuit of the light that falls just short of the door it blooms barely marigold but still blooms tiny yellow hearts at … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, my glamorous life, poetry, religion and spirituality, wheel of the year
Tagged aloe plant, army guy, bisexuality, blooms, boston, domestic partnership, doom, earth-based spirituality, gardening, high summer, lesbian marriage, love, marigolds, marriage, men, nature, plants, poetry, poetry - mine, religion, shacking up, shade gardening, spirit, spiritual practice, summer, summertime in boston, sunlight, sunlight of the spirit
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Rest in Peace Adrienne Rich: Fellow Poet, Feminist, Queer Woman, Trail-Blazer
Last week, I was about to board a plan to San Francisco when I saw Adrienne Rich’s obituary on the front page of the New York Times. It’s hard to describe Adrienne Rich’s impact on my life with grace and … Continue reading
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Tagged adrienne rich, awards, bisexuality, california, current events, entertainment, feminism, glbt rights, lesbians, literature, news, on being a bisexual woman, on being a female poet, on being a queer artist, on being a woman writer, poetry, poetry - other people's, politics, writing
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The move: after the solstice
Thursday 12/22/2011 All the carefully ordered placement of yesterday has been overlaid by a new layer of boxes, furniture, packing materials. And a layer of dust that traveled with M’s furniture from the old house to the new. Waking up … Continue reading
The move: after
Wednesday 12/21/2011 Solstice. The Longest Night. The shortest day. We wake at 6:00 a.m. or thereabouts, with the windows outside still black. Day dawns rainy, chilly, but not freezing cold; it’s in the 50s on the solstice. Still, we know … Continue reading
The move: during
Saturday 12/17/2011 Moving day. 8:30 a.m. and I have time enough for tea, time enough for love. Sipping the tea from my to-go mug (all the china is packed). Laptop laboring away with its asthmatic fan. Surrounded by boxes, and … Continue reading
The move: before
Friday, December 16, 2011 Twenty minutes. Half the house in boxes, half my body in distress, half my mind in disarray. The movers come tomorrow. Yesterday I wrote the checks and opened the door and walked in to the empty … Continue reading
Posted in my glamorous life
Tagged army guy, bisexuality, gender, glbt, living in sin, love, marriage, moving in, on being a bisexual woman, on being a queer woman, relationships, shacking up
The move: before, during, after (introduction)
On a bright, cool day in December I packed up all my things and took the fool’s journey into a new cohabitation. The fool will say “it’s different this time,” but the wise fool knows when it’s actually true. What … Continue reading
Olga’s Birthday, by Rose Polenzani
These are song lyrics rather than a “pure” poem, but it’s such a haunting song, with a meaning deeply personal to me as a queer woman, that I thought I’d share. Plus, it’s been running through my head nonstop for … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, poetry
Tagged bisexuality, feminism, glbt rights, music, on being a female artist, poetry, poetry - other people's, queer experience
Dear NOW: this is why I’m not giving you any money
Dear NOW: I wanted to explain to you why I am not sending a contribution in response to your recent U.S. mail solicitation to me. I have three primary reasons for not wishing to send you my dollars: 1) As … Continue reading
Posted in gender and sexuality, politics, strongly worded letters
Tagged bisexuality, feminism, glbt rights, open letters, strongly worded letters
