Author Archives: aidarends

blinkered lights went offi was softened by the night’s blanketstolen off the porch and brought back to bed astro black midnight blueshues of me and youcentral park green verdigris of the seathe blue the black the bruising nightthe red the red the red red light selah selah selahsay what time is itsay what time isContinue reading “so so wonderful”

the apsis of love how far and how close can we be? perihelion yr proximity means nuthin’ in this hemisphere a cold shoulder a close turn aphelion yr heart on the outskirts or perhaps my orbit you are so very far this is when we truly burn for your return return return

Most of us have been taught to think of our body as a physical structure, isolated from everything else. But if we think of it as a living system, then a different picture emerges. Traditional Indigenous thinking points towards an open system, connected with the universe and the Creator. In the mid-1970s I wrote downContinue reading “Where do our bodies end? | Ammsa.com”

“If I am peaceful in this discomfort, is not peace, is getting used to harm.” – Dionne Brand