a new web site

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Hello friends! I have finally made myself a proper website where I can better house all the different types of work that I do. That is where I will be updating my info, keeping current work, and blogging. I would love if you wanted to join me there.

studiorainwater.org

Thanks so much!

in progress: the only language that matters

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Orange peels

A wise woman tells me,
make space, new ideas will come

and so I try to identify
what I no longer need.

When the world is burning,
not somewhere else but here

and collectively we know that it will be a while
before this dark is over,

still, it is only a small shattering
and maybe the specific path does not matter

maybe orange peels in a pile in the sink
don’t have to mean anything

and maybe when it feels like we are
living in a circular world

with no doors
or answers,

when there is so much fire
everywhere

inside
and out

when forward motion
feels better –

we keep moving
as if action is the only language that matters

maybe the hardest part
is always allowing things to die.

in process: speaking up, and teaching our daughters to do the same

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Speak up

This is the thing I want to say:
when I was young
I never knew that there was
more than one path open to us,
that we could make the difficult choice
but I want you
to know it.

Sometimes I don’t know how to do
the thing that I have to do,
the thing that I have chosen.

Sometimes my
skin feels inside out
and my body like it is in 12
places at once.

Sometimes I try to tell someone
but I am behind glass.

No one can hear me.
No one can see my face
without a blur hiding its detail.

Lately I am a calm sea
quiet, with slow, constant motion
but no release.

The small waves
are lulling me into a trance
that will take me through
the long days of darkness
and winter and waiting

but this false calm
cannot last.

I am ready now
to show my
true face.

I am made of fire and earth
and they do not hide.

I look around and see
so many others still hiding

and I wonder why we keep
trying to exert ourselves
over things clearly
so much more
powerful than
we are.

Blue Hour Anthology accepting submissions

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Hi all, My fellow editors and I have decided to open submissions for Blue Hour Anthology number 4. We are delighted to bringing this back and are so excited to see what everyone sends us.

So please send your visual art, poetry or short prose submissions to bluehourmagazine@gmail.com by March 15th.

We are responding to submissions as they come in so send them on over!

Thanks!