Maria Costello

Sipping rose petal tea to go with my tattoo, my heart meridian, my right breast

We walk in our garden like monks in meditation. Hearts beating together like

Let words do what lips cannot flow into us warm as milk our mouths the petals of a child.

It was the small things that got us by in those days. Counting your blessings before bed, so you wouldn't wake up…

I make bread in my old clothes and my tatty apron with flour on it because that's my heaven! Hands in that soft…

It was the sight of planes, On a cold morning, off to work, I looked at the sky And felt the fear grip me

A place has been set for you at the great table, come and claim your place in the world

We stood in my memories of sunsets in Switzerland, rose-gold colors on the lake, the diamond halo of a full…

Pulling the Earth up through my feet filling the parts of me people have touched and taken because…

I watched wild love and wisteria wind itself around our house I wondered would it wrap itself around…

I want to be the fire in the trees, the peace in the flame, when the Winter shrieking starts up.

I walked past the city of bones and the smiling bodies all plump and tattooed. Corpse Bride danced with…

Oh the years of being the incredible swimming cat How I choked my lungs up with smoke and yelled and…

The idea that the lotus blossoms in a dung heap isn't true they grow in water pools and ponds of it They…

It used to hurt me deeply until I understood where it was coming from Now I know it has nothing to do…

You were better offI came into this life to experience certain things and so I have I didn't dodge a…

One blooms as the other is sipped, the fragrance as sweet as the nectar.I’ll put it on my tongue, like a…

I feel like glass an arm broke off I see its tiny hand clenched into a fistBallerina arm reaching…

In this dream, Alan Rickman was young. We were outside in nature but I don't know if we were by a beach or a desert…

The train had left Atherton, the trees brushed past my window. I was going to San Francisco to acting class, to…

The worst part was when they looked away at the Liffey in the darkDarker than your eyes got thicker…

I'm not being facetious Quote I'm not as deep as you think I am unquote That's when the phone went dead…

Ghost body, I want flesh and blood.Your heartbeat becomes a forgotten dream. It stops when I open my eyes.…

Like the cat who sleepson my bed, you lie curledin the warmth my body left. You linger in my hair, in myperfume.…

When Jellyfish dream of Angels,they're tired of swallowing fire.They'd rather breathe it like the Hydra,who spit it…

There's a door beneath my shoulder bladea temple portal with a stone GodWho breathes under watergills like wings…

I love you the way earth meets sky, a burgundy sunset with silhouettes of trees reaching for the evening…

I wish you were a childso you can play with meIf I turn into icethen you need to break meinto…

You gave me fireflies, a sea of dancing lights in my deepest dark. To be knee-deep in sparkling faerie flame,…

Is loving the same as needing?A condition requiring supply or relief? An obligation? So I searched for the…

A summer plum in the falling whispers of quiet snow, I was ripe and round in your suppleness - your wise hands.…

When I return to roses, I slough off the dead skin of cold iron and black branches.All fear scatters like…

The priviledged pointlessness of being there to blend in and stick out like a lent dinner jacket at La…

I reached inside my chest and let my hands remember buried treasure ... the doll with the loved-off face…

I rememberthe day the sky opened, the room that flooded with lightthe world outside was dissolving behind…

precious, you said and I melted like snow dissolving into heavy rain sounding like beating thunder to wake…

I came to you with my little feet with my tiny diamonds in the snow.You said I was the sun on white…

Let me stay in the pearl of sleep-wake to curl myself into a ball under the covers' protective shell.…