Occupation: Poet Birth: July 28, 1940
Gay people are not in the habit of thinking of ourselves as leading our civilization, and yet we do..
Gay culture is far from 'marginal,' being rather 'intersectional,' the conduits between unlike beings..
From my mother, a rock, / I have learned that rocks give / most of all..
He called her: mother of pearl, barley woman, rice provider, millet basket, corn maid, flax princess, all-maker, weef She called him: fawn, roe….
Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us..
The tribal attitude said, and continues to say, that Gay people are especially empowered because we are able to identify with both sexes and can see ….
Woman is as common as a loaf of bread, and like a loaf of bread, will rise..
What you will do matters. All you need is to do it..
The shaman/priest/artist/teacher/leader does not operate for the sole benefit of herself and her kind but for the benefit of the people at large and ….
We lavender folk spray up, spontaneously flowering in the color we had learned as an identifying mark of our culture when it was subterranean and sec….
The walls of the closet are guarded by the dogs of terror, and the inside of the closet is a house of mirrors..
Menstrual blood is the only source of blood that is not traumatically induced. Yet in modern society, this is the most hidden blood, the one so rarel….
We cannot live in the past, nor can we re-create it. Yet as we unravel the past, the future also unfolds before us, as though they are mirrors withou….
Everyone wants Love to follow them / down their road; / where is it that Love wants to go?.