declaration

 

"I will not die an unlived life. 
 I will not live in fear 
 Of falling or catching fire. 



 I choose to inhabit my days, 
 To allow my living to open me, 
 To make me less afraid, 
 More accessible; 

 To loosen my heart 

 Until it becomes a wing, 

 A torch, a promise. 

 I choose to risk my significance, 

 To live so that which came to me as seed 
 Goes to the next as blossom, 
 And that which came to me as blossom, 
 Goes on as fruit."
 ~Dawna Markova

affinity

in honor of Diane David,
my online friend 
who scooped me up
and embraced me 
from a farm in Vermont!
thank you for being 
calm, consistent, 
whimsical, & kind~
i treasure these gifts 
that you shared 
and left behind.

"Art 
gives me a place to put sorrow 
and work through to optimism."  
~Diane David