A Creative Ritual for Every Lunar Cycle
Full Moon June 29, 2026
Look within: do not allow the special quality or worth of any thing pass you by.
-Marcus Aurelius (trans. Martin Hammond)
Longing for a memory of wholeness in the midst
of wholly forgetting what I came into this room for.
Earth settles on the welcome table native cloth, a fine dust
that tastes like kaolin clay toothpowder, Grape Nerds & trust.
“What to a slave is the 4th of July?” Imagine a holiday from work
where we talk about inequality & decide to radically transform it.
Midsummer arrives with a distracted toothache as a humble bureaucrat
collects sewer taxes far from home while invoking Frederick Douglass.
Crying in grief over needless division, my irresolute birdheart
takes flight at the grace & generosity of strangers in this iron sunset.
Awake deep in the night with everything to do, I can only feel cold
air move downhill caressing old contours of this infilled wild creekbed.
