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Recipe for Conduits

Moonrose Doherty

after Michelle G. Stradford’s “Just Stir”


Stop waiting

rattlesnake resting

for brilliance to strike

you must open your mouth, shake your skin

create a recipe for success

create a home for lightning


Show up for you every day

every sand covered pocket, mesquite hidden moment

at the same time and place

at the same grains and granules


bring your unique talents

let them trail behind, leaving S shapes for eternity mix in

your inner creative

dust clouds of sparks and rainbows

and just stir

break up the clumps of shedded skin

let the magic

unfurl to stardust skies; let the brilliance

of you pour


Let yourself be the conduit

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Author Bio

Moon Doherty is a non-binary human that started writing poetry as a teenager and was encouraged by an amazing teacher at Jefferson High School, which led to getting poems published in Rites of Passage, the school’s literary magazine. They’ve been writing ever since and love to write poetry about nature, feelings, change, water, relationships and connection. The art of singing and painting through words (poetry in their perception) is a deeply personal creating that helps them understand their own body, mind, and soul in ways that they’re joyous has become a realized possibility. They’re grateful for the opportunity to share in community. Moon is deeply intertwined with plants and energies and the astral world and you’ll often find them under stars, in a river or sitting with their rooted, rain-drinking friends.

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