The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and of the universe and its patterns, as becomes what she perceives as fitting into place, into her sense of natural justice.

Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.

We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and secret.

From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all.

The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors.

Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarely spoken of and almost never seen, except privately by women.

Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?