new moon ceremony
2018
subtle love
2018
preparation sleepless night
rising 4:00 AM no one awake but boats
robe tied oil steeped
moving slowly to shore
crisp air like cool breath on wrists
first light 4:44 AM
screaming cry of seagulls
low tide slipping stones & itching legs
burning retinas missing sun
delay
sitting like a rock
waiting for light to break
clouds oil to crown 5:05 AM
sunrise oil to sole 5:16 AM
rain the divine 5:18 AM
submerge 58° ocean
sprinting heart breaking waves emerge day
axis Mundi
[or learning from trees] 2018
[listen to wind]
[forehead to trunk]
[keep feet on ground]
[absorb cells of tree]
secret acts
duration: 12 years, 2001—2013
sublimation
2013
phase transition /
of a substance
directly from
a solid to a g a s
/ defense mechanism
in which
socially unacceptable
impulses or idealizations are
unconsciously transformed into socially
acceptable actions
or behavior
