I knew this friendship with myself couldn’t last forever.
Vertical attention is not the same as, and doesn't evolve from nor imply, hierarchy. We could say that hierarchy is associated with power, and vertical attention with longing for the Divine Feminine, for the Divine Masculine, for what the Sufis call 'wine.'
My life failed on the very day I was born.
It's good to have poems that begin with tea and end with God.
Sociological prose can tell you everything, but it can't point out the grief.
Reclaiming the sacred in our lives naturally brings us close once more to the wellsprings of poetry.