love-washed

Photo by Marco De Waal on Unsplash

a go-with-it-ness
that allows
my body to slacken
into the surf
of rolling waters

get dragged out
waaaaay beyond
where i can stand
— or even swim

to be cast about
in places where
floating in the dissolution
& softening
is the only
& most urgent
need/possibility

Michelle Puckett, MFA is a poet, doula, permaculturalist, coach and Co-Founder of Creating Freedom Movements, a social justice school for activists. All of her work aims to nourish the sacred and make it plain in every day life.