Goddess Centered Practice
In the woods behind my house rest a collection of nine large flat rocks. Daily, I walk down to these “priestess rocks” for some sacred time alone to pray, meditate, consider, and be. Often, while in this space, I open my mouth and poetry comes out. I’ve come to see this experience as "theapoetics"—experiencing the Goddess through direct “revelation,” framed in language. As Stanley Hopper originally described in the 1970’s, it is possible to “…replace theology, the rationalistic interpretation of belief, with theopoetics, finding God[dess] through poetry and fiction, which neither wither before modern science nor conflict with the complexity of what we know now to be the self.” Theapoetics might also be described, “as a means of engaging language and perception in such a way that one enters into a radical relation with the divine, the other, and the creation in which all occurs.”
Welcoming Summer!
Peace
Power
Passion
and Plenty...
(Summer Peace Chant by me)
Today, we stood in the swift waters of the creek with our children. As we sang together, the breeze swirled 
around us, scattered raindrops kissed our shoulders, and then the fire of the sun peeked out of the clouds to warm our skin. Standing there together on the wet rocks, where the water emerges fresh from the body of the earth, we felt immersed in a union of the elements.
And, as we let our black-eyed-Susans float down the stream, we whispered a prayer for the togetherness for the many families of the world.
May we all know peace, love, connection, community, and freedom.
I watched a brilliant green snake
twine sinuously through an ash tree
moving with such skillful grace
across the branches
it almost became invisible
in the dappled
emerald shadows.
I felt the sun soak into my skin
picking wild raspberries
with sweat shining my shoulders. 
I sank into ice-cold water,
where the earth gives
birth to the river.
I gathered a handful
of rose petals
and stood facing the horizon
considering the possible.
This can be summer
liquid
languorous
luminous.
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