Darlene Witte

For the unhappy but intelligent engineer I met online in 2018… He could tell a story. Would it be like this? So many questions. . .This woman. She confused me so.Is she kind? She is.Does she know Heidegger?She does. She…

The beautiful priestess lingers, her eyes open,hands closed. In the quiet I move toward her, probing the shimmerthat rests in the ancient air,that touches her comb,her amulet, her pot. These ordinary attachments,I know as she knew them,just for a breath.…

At the time of harvest, the time of feastingwhen the brightest stars shone and the air was clean, most clear Demeter turned to her beloved daughter, Persephone.“Come,” she said, “Let us sit down together, let us laugh and enjoy our…

I rememberwhen you slept in your cradle. I sang to you.The sound of forever was in my throat, a sweet-silver flow. I remember how your rose petal hand patted my shoulder as I carried you.Many days, then, lay ahead for…

watching me, eyes bring black, gleamingCrow read my inner shadows I begged her for help. . . Crow came, intent, fearless. Gentleinto that passagewhere I had first tasted of life, my mother’s milk,and with my first breathhad heard the old…

With lilies on hisfeet Basho comes through the greenspringtime I see him walkI see how the lilies move with him his hands fill with dew the Cloud of Unknowingrises ’round, walks with him, within him he sees me, I follow…

Friend and companion of my mindsuch laughter sprang up between usfrom the heart of happinesswas released a confluencea flood that arose so freshso sudden in that middle river we joined surprised us bothbut swept us away from each other: It…