Category: books

📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived

They arrived.They’re beautiful. I can’t wait to begin signing them. After years of wandering through notebooks, rivers, forests, grief, laughter, edits, and countless cups of fir tip tea, the first printed copies of Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Watershed are finally here. In a couple… Continue Reading “📚 Becoming Beautiful Barbarians & Watershed have arrived”

Time to Touch It

Modernity is the refusal to be in touch.—Bayo Akomolafe A small glimpse from Watershed, a collection of poems about grief, kinship, witness, and return. This poem, “Time to Touch It,” lives near the center of the book’s inquiry: what happens when grief can no longer remain… Continue Reading “Time to Touch It”

Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat

Field Observation: Beautiful Barbarian (Homo imaginalis/Homo metamorphicus/barbari pulchri) Habitat: thresholds, ecotones, collapsing empires, mountain ridges, places where certainty grows thin, and possibly swells like summer fruit Known behaviors: composting inherited stories, practicing permeability, building altars from ordinary debris, tending beauty amid collapse, occasionally jumping… Continue Reading “Field Sighting: Beautiful Barbarians in Their Native Habitat”

Imaginal Buds Are Gathering

Over the past year, a body of work and play has been slowly crawling across the landscape. Some of you have already walked beside small pieces of it through courses, playshops, solstice circles, grief rituals, and scattered poems shared here and online. Now two… Continue Reading “Imaginal Buds Are Gathering”

No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back

We know that grief refuses to stay in its assigned lanes. It spills—across categories, across places and species, across distances we try to keep between things. It also accumulates, adding layers that thicken our lives. Over the past year, I’ve been working on a… Continue Reading “No Amount of Miles – Lend Your Tears Back”

For Those Who Listen to Earth

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I’d have 10 poetry books out there, flitting about in the bushes and soaring in winter skies. This time last year there were just the two originals, that grew from my time in the forest and… Continue Reading “For Those Who Listen to Earth”

Kiss Me A Huckleberry

Kiss Me A Huckleberry is finally here 🙂 At first, I was thinking of waiting until next summer to release this one because the cover features wild fruit. But don’t be fooled, Ecosensuality is not only a summer season thing—it’s a year round evocation.… Continue Reading “Kiss Me A Huckleberry”

8 Books Flying and Chirping

8 books flying and chirping like pacific wren singing up the sun. Three fledglings (at bottom, Moon one not shown) needing a couple more worms before flight. A few more still in the nest, including the composting empire Becoming Beautiful Barbarians and Riverever. Feels… Continue Reading “8 Books Flying and Chirping”

Within the Cave Something Pulses – Poetry and Program

What if we allied ourselves to the energies of the season? What if we dove into the silent dark and welcomed the wholeness of who we are? What labyrinth wisdoms await? What dreams are fires in the dark? What if our shadow was an… Continue Reading “Within the Cave Something Pulses – Poetry and Program”

From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement

Introduction to From Inside These Wild Ones: Dispatches from Somewhere in the Entanglement