The air is tangibly soft here! So warm and humid and fragrant, I thought, inhaling sweet tropical perfumes. I descended the stairs from the wobbly little aircraft that had hiccupped its way across the Caribbean from San Juan, Puerto Rico. Something forbidden came over me when I touched the ground.
…
Until now she hadn’t understood
that gravity didn’t affect her.
Waking with a start,
she found herself
in the corner of her room,
caught in an eddy
near the ceiling.
Her mother had always
called her an airhead.
In school her classmates
called her a lightweight. …
damp moist dewy wet
humid steaming sticky sweat
rain hail sleet snow
fog mist cloud rainbow
brook river creek stream
pond lake ocean sea
raft boat surfboard ski
thunderstorm waterspout tsunami
cyclone typhoon hurricane
wild northeaster wind-wave train
ice liquid-vapor slush
flow drip burble gush
torrent rapids waterfall
glacier iceberg…
There could be
no surprises left,
she thought,
as she made her way
through the ancient market,
wielding her cane
like a scimitar
against the small brown gypsy boys
begging for just one Dirham, inshallah.
Pungent scents of paprika, chilies,
garlic, camel dung, smoky incense
invaded her nostrils
as mosquitos helicoptered
down inside her…
Don’t need to paint my toenails
don’t need to shave my legs
don’t need to trim my bikini line
ain’t nobody gonna see
he left me for his other woman
left me for his family
my baby he done gone back home
ain’t nobody gonna see
don’t need to put…
Author’s Note: Most of the research on spontaneous orgasms center around sex dreams, whether for male or female. What if there’s no sex?
I had a dream one morning recently, a powerful dream that caused me to wake up in the throes of a roaring orgasm. …
Costa Rica is one of my favorite countries to visit, as are New Zealand and the Indonesian island of Bali. But I visit Costa Rica every year, if I can, because of its beauty, simplicity, and the kindness of its people. Life here is sweet, simple, slow-paced, and sumptuous. …
My art teacher, Jan Hart, originally from Seattle, once told me that she had to escape the Pacific Northwest because she was “sick of painting green.” So she moved to New Mexico, which is mostly anything but green. …
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