Dominique Christina

-------Dominique Christina-------

Your work is like a Yarrow seed that seeks the battered earth to set its roots into.

Its tiny, fragrant flowers and leaves becoming
to reflect the nature of the medicine within;
a tonic for the blood

that has thickened in the veins of this country.

Your work is the vocation of a poet walking
barefoot across stones to the spring.

A truth of word and water pure draws the light from its source
and into a cup,
for us all to share.

Dear, brave resistor

I thank you for not going passively through this life

but rather for filling your seed pouch
with its many graces

and healing our wounds with your voice.

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Good Medicine

-------Good Medicine-------

I speak about emptiness and sorrow
not because I am sad,
but because I feel a deep need to go

where I have been told I shouldn't.

This is not
mischief out of anger,

but a resurrecting
from ignorance.

I am a rascal in love,

picking weeds
in the dark
to make us tea.
 

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Always Beginning

-------Always Beginning-------

Autumn comes on slow and gentle,

like a lovers touch

when the light is dim.

Softly, across the sheets

and then

a kiss!

A thousand

suns

rise;

A thousand ways
to say "I love you"

pour out from every limb.

A greater feeling,
our Truest Self,

as delicate and ever-changing as the seasons.

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La Petite Mort

-------La Petite Mort-------

Forgiving hunger

we make love on an empty stomach,

and our ghosts filter
and fill us to that point of perfect contentment.

At night,

while the Great Star is dancing on the other side,

a little death carries us

to the very edge of living;

to where light meets the darkness

and there is nothing to hold onto or fear.
This absence and your eyes

rise a smile from my heart,

for within them is the emptiness
I have worked so hard trying to find,

starving myself and digging through fields
someplace else,

but it has always been right here

with you,
and I
and us, together.

Communion
like this

ensures
there will never be an end.

Love
like this
is an eye
clearly seeing the world.

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