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like honey sunlight
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like honey sunlight

ByKymberlee

              The way your voice fills the room like honey sunlight your tongue touching a certain place in your mouth– I lean in. (aching) Words spill recklessly from your beautiful mouth unfiltered and weighted, the pressure of them sticks to me no–not the pressure, the power it has a…

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they woke up

ByKymberlee

they chased after elusive rainbows thinking the colors– (the shimmering wonder!) were outside of them. one day, they woke up and realized they were light itself and the game changed. they did a spiral dance together luminous brilliance (refracted wonderment!) in an infinite sea of grace

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I AM

ByKymberlee

I saw Tom Shadyac’s film I AM last night. As the director of films like “Ace Ventura” and “Bruce Almighty”, he’s a man who had “the dream”–the houses, the cars, the private jet and, after an accident, realized that those things are not really what make a person happy. He set out on a quest…

shoot me in the back if you must
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shoot me in the back if you must

ByKymberlee

I don’t remember when it happened exactly, but it did.  I was probably really young and impressionable at the time and I drank it in:  The criticism and judgments of others, the conditional acceptance that comes with colonizing.   I heard things like:  Be like me and I’ll like you. Don’t be too much of…

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how i loved you [or the alchemy of heartbreak]

ByKymberlee

how i loved you no one understood the torture– the sweet musk of ache in my heart no one knew you utterly macerated my sweet butterfly in your gaping mouth but I knew (and I let you) (and I let you) a thousand flutters of longing–thrusting in a moonlit garden of jasmine while, for ten…