from the new moon:

i ask my mother, the river, to purify the fire and i am still in her waters. i notice when i do not move, everything is magnetized towards me. i notice pale rainbow on iridescent thigh. the surface tension accentuating gold speckled leaf. reflection of sun in the dark, silky waters. cosmos. i want to be fully alive; to love fully, i tell the river spirit. i tell her this and she reveals to me the fullness of her being — healing Waters rippling out and out, still further …