In Brief, 2025: On Your/My Behalf
December 18, 2025
I do not abandon you without grief. You are not at fault. You were made how you were made. You’ve always done, simply, what you know. … More In Brief, 2025: On Your/My Behalf
Tag: Poetry
Moonbox Notes #31: Fall & Film
November 11, 2025
[I no longer have]
[I had to remove my]
[I couldn’t keep my]
[I chose a chance at long life over having] … More Moonbox Notes #31: Fall & Film
Moonbox Notes #30: Letting Go/Next Surgery
August 13, 2025
my husband knows where
my skin discerns itself and where
it does not—and between the islands
of numbess my body has found … More Moonbox Notes #30: Letting Go/Next Surgery
Moonbox Notes #29: Primavera (Hello, Goodbye)
June 9, 2025
how I wish to hold on
bury myself with your belonging … More Moonbox Notes #29: Primavera (Hello, Goodbye)
Moonbox Notes #28: Post-Surgery
March 25, 2025
I remember when grandpa didn’t slouch, when he’d tell jokes, eat pickled pigs feet, speak his native tongue to the gardeners that care for his landscaping. He still laughs, of course, but it feels so rare. My husband once told that silly dog joke about a bulldog and a shih tzu. Grandpa laughed so hard it was as if, for a brief moment, the curse of being a stroke victim had broken. Humor will always be what seems to soothe what cannot be said. … More Moonbox Notes #28: Post-Surgery
Moonbox Notes #27: Winter 2025
February 5, 2025
Inner eyelid, soft
Night like any, this
Sweeping urge to think
One thousand sheep
March into the darkness
Never looking back at you, … More Moonbox Notes #27: Winter 2025
Moonbox Notes #26: Nov/Dec
December 21, 2024
Owls hoot from invisible places, from the rocky canyon walls we now trudge between, from the tucked earthen dark, behind the eyes of a fox who follows us. … More Moonbox Notes #26: Nov/Dec
In Brief, 2024: No Te Escucho
December 18, 2024
I like how obscure this year’s post has become. It is maybe more showing than telling. It is also both narrative and not. This is how my life feels right now, and this ending of 2024 leaves me in the very place my notebook ends: with blank pages, with the last entry its own, crossed-out void. … More In Brief, 2024: No Te Escucho
Moonbox Notes #25: Octubre
October 25, 2024
there’s something sad about running
through a grove of ancient
bristlecone pines, something mortal
and wounded, drought-stricken
and wildfire smoked but rooted
time immemorial, this urge … More Moonbox Notes #25: Octubre
Moonbox Notes #24: Summer Edition
August 28, 2024
you are the shape of the alpine loam catching like thirst, yourself now the notes of thunder … More Moonbox Notes #24: Summer Edition
Moonbox Notes #23: Abril/Mayo
May 15, 2024
It’s been eight long weeks of recovery thus far, and I still have an unknown journey ahead. To have this happen now, the year I become sponsored, right before three back-to-back races, one being my first international race (a Skyrunning race! a world stage!)…obviously, injuries are never convenient. … More Moonbox Notes #23: Abril/Mayo
Moonbox Notes #22: Febrero/Marzo
March 16, 2024
these bodies remain
earthlings, caught by storm
heartwoods, as brown as ever
otro día, nevado pero entero
as in, rooted, cradling light
a red, rubbled road into the sky—
why can’t we see it
the end to the storm … More Moonbox Notes #22: Febrero/Marzo
Moonbox Notes #21: Enero
January 25, 2024
Maybe some of you have wondered why I always share so much about Indigenous People. I hope this piece answers that for you. It is because I have an affinity for All My Relations (the belief that we are all related); it is because I have a duty to learn about and uphold the pieces of me that have been ignored by society, education, and even the communities I grew up in … More Moonbox Notes #21: Enero
Moonbox Notes #20: Diciembre
December 27, 2023
My brain, body, and soul have been restless. “The Holidays” have felt wrong for years, but this year was even more potent for me (unfathomable for those in Palestine). I’m done glazing over US Holidays as a status quo. … More Moonbox Notes #20: Diciembre
In Brief, 2023: Suggestions
December 18, 2023
And what better modes of suggestion than art or direct protest, both borne through our ability to use the imagination, where the rules of even kindness break down, where power is bewildered and navigation, endless. Where the ways of living out one’s life stun the status quo. … More In Brief, 2023: Suggestions
Moonbox Notes #19: Oct/Nov 2023
November 13, 2023
They touch. They toss themselves like an acrobat, back arching, tails curling momentum. The squirrels roam the slope, knead through soil, leaves, duff. Bury, unbury. They garden. They nurse. They take care. … More Moonbox Notes #19: Oct/Nov 2023
Moonbox Notes #16: Jun/lio 2023
July 19, 2023
But, it’s fawn season and I’ve already seen a mama cross through the land with her two little ones. Plus, a mama squirrel with her fresh younglings. There’s also a crow family that nests nearby, and this morning they were heckling someone’s wandering, domestic cat. There is no shortage of non-human interactions here. … More Moonbox Notes #16: Jun/lio 2023
Moonbox Notes #15: Mayo 2023
May 30, 2023
But yawning is not quite the same as responding to something lovely with grief, so this analogy has probably failed, just as I failed to hold onto love at a formal table in a public space. At my wedding, my mother was just a picture, I thought. And yet it was no longer just a thought. … More Moonbox Notes #15: Mayo 2023
Moonbox Notes #14: Abril 2023
April 27, 2023
But I can only speak the languages of assimilation
of a lost knowing
of ways in which to peel
ear by ear
wool by wool
the bloodiest parts of the earth. … More Moonbox Notes #14: Abril 2023
Moonbox Notes #13: Marzo 2023
March 28, 2023
It allures me to recall again and again. And all I want is to surround myself with its sounds. This is the shape of you, dressed in your voice. … More Moonbox Notes #13: Marzo 2023
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