Simple Sips

We play with water.

Infuse our life source with plant properties.

The alien-like, though all-encompassing, healing elements of noni. We brew the leaves from the tree just like a tea.Jessica Dofflemyer ~ all rights reserved

The vibrant purple steep of basil from the garden.

Jessica Dofflemyer ~ all rights reserved

The Bohemian likes to shake it up. Swirl the water in the jar until a spiraling spout forms, reminiscent of the twister that took Dorothy to Oz.

“Vortex water,” he’ll say with a smile, just before drinking it in.

Maybe not every single time – but so often – the Bohemian reminds me to feel each moment. Remember magic suffused in simple sips.

Free Dive

courtesy of jayhem

I’m free diving
letting bubbled liquid
fill my ears
to heavy quiet
but for the tinkling
of sand
sifting
my body
moving
with the rocking sway
of currents

I float
through thick space
maneuvering in the blue
streaming sunlight
that casts holographic hallways
azure passageways
through which
I slowly swim

in the water world
there is weighted silence
and dazzling sights
prisms of light

courtesy of gnews

If I were to open my mouth
to tell you
I would be drinking a salty soup

in this bluish realm
I can only
slowly
make a gesture
toward the essence
of this calm

later will be the surfacing
a gasp for breath
teeth exposed to air in smile
rivulets of salt streaming
to an open mouth
a tongue to tell

courtesy of Shane Watson

Wellspring

slowly
as liquid
you came and stirred the places
that slept

quiet
rising like steam
those spaces
still
and thick
no sound

breathing
your story
35 days without bathing
deep in holy mountains
stumbling upon waterfalls and hot springs
soaking all day
in the river of the white goddess
the oasis

unbidden
it was me
you say
that swirled in eddies
gushed in distant rushing spates
there with you
in sacred waters

these hidden pockets
inlets
curving stone
are surfaces softened
smoothed
by time’s lapping
I want to be forever in their carving

pooling waterways
spill and seep
as I soak
in the haven
of your story
an alchemy of elements
the mystery of our collision
where we are sourced at the wellspring
offering oasis
in the dry

artwork by Alison Berry