The Church Sky

Pistachio, Tangerine, Azure, and Fire Blossom

What flavor of holiness would be found behind those doors?

Who would lay prostrate upon the prayer matted floors?

Could you lay down your weapons as if you were sore

rejecting all violence against those who’re po’or

Would the doors open outwards with sweeping embraces?

Did you hear the call to prayer staring out at your faces?

Where do your feet run to at such furious paces

Suit up and move in to glory’s good graces.

Evening Drive

the mustang muscles

its way up the hill

Revs past the

Second hand drinkers

Tick-tock tick-tock tick-tock

That felt like limericks

But tasted like limes

The color hunter green arrow

Green arrow

Or spring leaf

or envious Kermit

or shambles of zombies

This ride is taking

A length

of extraordinary time

Skipping music like rock(s)

Or The Stones

or cowboy lasso

Contributing artist: Eric B. Bishop

Bluebirds

Happiness came to visit

dressed in a bright blue suit

with cherry vest

across the breast

The pursuit of happiness

Singing a lilt to their paramour;

Speaking up

not speaking for

Dipping into a lover’s rhythm

flying bilateral prisms

The two move in synchronicity

Happiness loves company

These Are My People: Lorraine Couch

Lorraine the Warrior Queen, multi-media, canvas SOLD

Pull up a pew, step up to the pulpit

Church with Lorraine is true; no bullshit

She’ll dip you in baptismal waters

Correct our sons, respect our daughters

She a woman of God fearing faith

a warrior healer with a transcendent face

She kneels to no one and you’d better be true

Because she doesn’t care who you are

but she knows what you do.

Evolution

Pointing fingers of blame

Screaming, hollering, cursing your name

But love hasn’t died, it has changed

It has evolved into smoke and rain

Before I hate you, before it gets strange

Words of power up again

No words of rage

No, “Please don’t go”

Just anguished tears staged

A separation shallow

TAMP Matthew (Seth) Fox

This young man died on January 6th of 2020. He was my "future husband" and as best friend to Matthew McBee, a true blue all the way. He was 24.
Matthew Caine (Seth) Fox

Your hair should be gray

when they lay you to rest

not dark on your brow

with a babe on your chest

What brings me awakened;

startled upright in the dark

‘Tis only the dawn becoming

on the lilt of morning larks

They promise a new day

frigid with winter’s chill

To rest you in the January earth

upon that hallowed hill

Liberty Stolen

My body, this I be (My country tis of thee)

Peace, Joy, Affinity, (Sweet land of liberty)

Youth’s fountain springs (Of thee I sing)

Blood on my mother’s thighs (Land where my father’s died)

Gifts of our sister’s sighs (Land of the Pilgrim’s pride)

At every hearth reside (From every mountainside)

“Hestia, we sing!” (Let freedom ring!)

Quilted Southern Winds

Quilted Southern Winds

Everyone thinks death cold, but It’s really

Warm, intimate, successful release

Wrapped up in the comfort specifically.

Designed with the greatest love; Precisely laid

Met with the request for entry

with two silver coins for Charon

but lacking in the courage to step onto the ferry

Hindered by worry that is specifically laden with

Lofty descent permeated with terror

Yet thrown back into the tepid waters

as rebirth is painfully conjured from within

the womb of life pattern stitched

in quilted southern winds

Today vs 355 Days Ago

Bean is so missed in my life.

Mare Martell's avatarMare Martell

Today I watched an emergency vehicle roar

followed by a chorus of five more

the hymn they sang was not for me

but I found myself unable to breathe

I started to panic, filled with fear

as if they were suddenly going to stop here

I wear her shirts and her ashes

as if those would conjure her

breathe, ironically, life back to her

to us

to the moment in time where we were

all of we, together, being happily.

It was a feeling of holy

a feeling of communion

as we broke bread together

The laughter we shared

reciting our ancient tales

filled us faster than food

She just at fifty, me at 49

We’d spent a love-time of life

but never enough time

The chaplain at the hospital said,

on the day Bean really died,

“Maybe you were the face of God

she had to see before…

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