Mercury retrograde | raediamond

Articulations & Wonder

"Spacetime tells matter how to move; matter tells spacetime how to curve." - John Wheeler

You may read my poetry and hybrids online at:

Or read about Cantigee, available through North Atlantic Books.

Or read reviews of books by trans and POC poets:

Blood Lies: Race Trait(or) + (forthcoming) Percussing the Thinking Jar

Speed

Speed. For most of us, that word implies fast motion. It also describes rate of motion. This month, the speed of life will feel like a...

I offer you four interpretations of the term, bone consciousness: 1. An awareness that lives in your bones. It is ancient, deep, wise, a...

I will always remember waking up to a lead blanket of collective dread the day after 2016's election. I was at a cousin's house in...

I have two metaphors for you this month. 1, The riddle of juxtaposition: Two colors, when put next to each other, strike us differently...

When two beings fall in love, there is a tightrope alchemy of unsung support that enables that otherworldly whirl of emotion and magic:...

Change, like love, means many different things. Within all of the various loves we feel in the many relationships of our lives, there are...

The road trips of my youth were made possible by the game, Cows in the Graveyard. If it hadn't been for the calming, attentive and...

Springtime means it's time to dive in, to activate, to thrust upwards and outwards, like seeds sprouting up from the soil into the light...

Weather forms one of the backdrops of our lives. Much of the time, it's a relatively constant state - a warm season, a wet season, and so...

Tales of two gardens: A few years ago, I inherited an old, derelict raspberry patch in the yard outside of my apartment. I weeded it,...