Spoken Word

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My Spoken Word @ Narrative Camp 2019 with a group of postmodern therapists (Vermont)


Elders, Midis, Newcomers

Come together as one

None to be outdone


An invitation to come forward

The weight of responsibility

to carry the torch

Let’s bring our children

to Narrative Church


Co-sparking

zing zing zing

Igniting ideas and passions

Forming new alliances and honoring old ones


A heartfelt conversation

supports my Individuation

A liminal space

Some tears shed, two hearts lifted


A cry for acknowledgement

Reparations and resistance

In silence there is also strength

Taking it in

Holding space for all


A call to activism

A separation from 

And a dominion over

Mother GAIA


The beating of hearts

Rhythmic and united

Voices lifted in song

Many into one


The splash of oars

9 women - 15 to 74

The sun glinting on the water

Feel the Feminine power


Decoloniality and interculturality

A collectivization of pain

Cultural healing and re-membering

Bearing witness to one another

A counterstory to silence and isolation


Can we co-create the world we want to see

A shaping of identities, of physiologies, of new meanings


A Community reformed and re-formed

Rizomes extending across land and sea


A labor of love

A worthy endeavor

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