Lisa or Li

The road to fitness.

Let the pulse pass; it will become a stone and drag you to the bottom. I started smoking cigarettes at age 17. I smoked through both of my pregnancies and while nursing my sons. Smoking was something I understood was a bad thing for my health and for the health of my children and those…

POPO 2021 Day 3

Cisgender doesn’t mean I can’t wear my pink boots.

TSM 180 — Night Walker

My darling, why did you goto a place so dark?I truly need to know. Empty clangs, doves moan,heels click, soul marked.My darling, why did you go? Night screams, blood flowsyet no answer, my sanity infarct.I fervently need to know incantation to transposefrom ghoul back to art.My darling, why did you go? Numbers terrify, a village…

POPO 2021 Day 2

Do you get my signal? I’m trying to reach you.

Nature’s Supreme Design — Micro of the Macro

Please take a few minutes of your time to see gorgeous pieces of our planet and to read an outstanding essay about how precious our Dear Mother Earth really is. Our cousins, the plant kingdom, are even more amazing than we realized. Is it your facethat adorns the garden?Is it your fragrancethat intoxicates this garden?…

Actions Related to Indian Boarding Schools — Turtle Talk

Yesterday’s National Day of Remembrance for U.S. Indian Boarding Schools came with two developments. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Rep. Sharice Davids, and Rep. Tom Cole reintroduced a bipartisan bill to establish a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies. The bill text is available here. In addition, Interior issued a press release announcing that […]…

POPO 2021 Day 1, October 1

This year was the first year I participated in the Poetry Postcard Fest (aka POPO.) Kerfe Roig told me about it last year when she participated. For me an enjoyable part was creating paper collage however the spirit moved me and then doing an ekphrastic slimverse poem to it. Another fun part is the receiving…