Healing the Heart Song
"I have lived hundreds of lifetimes since this planet began. This incarnation will be my last chance to complete my mission."
Princess
I looked into the full length mirror and I saw a princess in white looking back at me.
Goddess
My mind is still a tornado of ideas, new powers, costumes, secret identities.
Ocean
Up and down we go, up and down. I swim powerfully, a mer-boy moving majestically through the dark water towards the light.
Dolls
Ruth stomped into the room, holding a Barbie doll by her blond hair and a pair of stone-washed Barbie jeans. “Luke, I can’t get Catherine’s jeans on—her legs are too sticky.”
Duck
We didn’t have a dog, but my sister had a duck—a little awkward thing—bright yellow with a large bill the exact shade of dried mustard.
Baptism
A foreword and a memory. A reckoning and a rebirth.
The Red Ball
The red ball is solid but gives when I squeeze it. It needs air.
Horse
“Now that’s a fine looking horse, yessiree! Look there, Luke! A genuine Arabian stallion!"
