Siren: A Daughter of Water

Like cotton candy dipped in water, the prior year has dissolved into nothingness, but I, who have tasted its sweetness, can still feel its strawberry-flavored sugar on my tongue—and its sticky residue. I’ve been stretched and spun into delicate strands of heated sucrose; body temperature cool, yet internally melting under an eternal, radiant summer sun. I am gooey and compressed, clear, peach syrup. This past summer, the muse that echoes within me returned to the world—with a pen in her...
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Birthdays: True Measures of Friendships

Brunches on the weekends. Phone calls > texts. Summer holidays in Tuscany. “Bestie telepathy.” Transparency and compassionate honesty. Mirroring (and reflecting) vibrant, emotionally mature, healed energy.… This is what we’ve manifested. We are mutual warmth in an ice storm; and sisters from another life. -- As a wayfarer, and someone who’s ever reinventing herself, maintaining friendships while simultaneously chasing creative pursuits, career aspirations and a dream existence is challenging. Truthfully, I am the quintessential “busy” friend. The one who’s always...
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3 Ways to Recalibrate Spiritually & Mentally During ...

As I emerge from a prolonged stint of “creative stillness,” a phrase borrowed from Dhayana Alejandrina (to describe “writer’s block), I’ve come to understand that I can never truly write about an experience while it’s “still dark outside.” I named this platform “Muse by Midnight” because I “sparkle in the twilight;” expanding like a nyctinastic plant which moves, breathes and shifts according to a circadian rhythm that reacts in response to darkness. I am in sync with myself – and...
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2023 Birthday Musings: Friendships, Poetry, Death & ...

Nuzzled in a submarine valley of surreality, I am 1,800 meters under water; inhaling sand at the bottom of the world… The Earth is simultaneously blatantly aggressive and dreamlike, and each blink (and rapid closing of my eyes) shuttles me between microcosms, causing vertigo from the ricochet. I am alive, I am stirred. I am drowsing, I am insomnolent. I am asleep, I am entombed. I am inspired, I am still. I am resolute, and I am "cogito, ergo sum" –– thinking...
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