—for Stephanie & Grace and all sisters standing at the water's edge
A great body of water
touches
unites
the shores where we stand
here in the high desert
when I climb the highest peaks
I feel the ancestral ocean
I see great sea floor
on its slopes
scattered volcanic rocks
stone faces of long silent giants
the waters of the pacific
reach me here
I stand on this shore
feeling its other shores
where my sisters stand
gazing out on the open waters…
—Lorena
Risen from the depths of death
Risen from all the relations
Risen from the dark
Released by the water of being into herself
Become herself after all
the suffering and past now gone
Resonances of love endure
I see the black below
in which all things form
from rot and decay to become
hummus
for the new out of the mystery
And I see her
body make of love, desire
light of the earth
expanding
illumined
Three white radiant circles
in an alignment of knowing
The names of her people
written into the warp and weft
of the background
having woven the fabric
of how she came to be here
Reborn
—Lorena Wolfman
I receive and I give—
breathing in and breathing out—
I give and I receive in being alive
in dying and being reborn.
It is a constant exchange
of air
of light with all creation...
I carry this circling orb of being,
once gifted to me
and that I continue to create as I dance...
even through the fear when I hold my breath
and then begin to breath again,
and hold my breath again,
and breath again—
a constant exchange,
the dance of the orb
giving and receiving,
receiving and given
my birthright and it belongs to LIFE,
daring, daring to embody it,
from my belly.
—Lorena
Brilliant light of desire
Mother of tears
Mother of moisture
Mother of our lived rivers
Rocking on the ocean of the universe
Pulsing heart of sacred conception
Each moment
Savoring the taste of more
Being here
—Lorena Wolfman
red pomegranate
seeds boundaries
shapes movement
fleshing out
flushing out
Is it a sacriledge
to name what has to go!?
to make space in my belly
in my gut
taking back the depths
letting go
releasing
descending
down and out
opening inward
energy coalescence
red white
round
empty fullness
fully defined
boundless rest
expanding
—Lorena
in the deepest caverns of the earth’s night
the earth’s belly,
rocking.
—Lorena
