upsi continues her repetitions walks of nomadic peace

upsi watches as paths widen bodies arrive willing a new way

dancing a new distance to be together-strong-peace

upsi accepts nature’s offered hand accepts self her participation

holds space for healing harm reduction practiced for and from body

learning from necessity how to be alone

learning how to make peace at home

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recorded 26.4.18

Riding waves of smoke.

Moving toward knowing which way

This now is headed.

 

Apparently toward,

My right earlobe, scenes your

Inquisitive eyes.

 

With ink and color

You trace the present moment.

Which happens to be

 

Me. I sit beside

You. And forget where I am.

Though I never leave.

 

But in that moment,

I’m thinking of my lover

And when I drew them.

 

Thinking of their chest

How it holds my hips and ass

And flexes with each

 

Thrust. But I was lost.

My mind fled so quickly from

One thought to the next.

 

From the memory

Of us, artist and model,

Toward the fucking us.

 

But always the past

Or the future fantasy.

Never simply now.

 

So I go there, or

Rather I stay here, and now.

_ _ _ _ _

 

And I find myself,

Alone. Confined to this skin.

And hyper aware,

 

Of the sensation

Of air and silk and cotton

Against my body.

 

And these sensations

All fluctuate between pain

And nervous pleasure.

recorded 5.12.15

recorded 18.4.17