Healing

Celeste Boudreaux

How to Start Your Butterfly Life

First, you have to get sick of being a caterpillar. Weary of never-ending consumption, outgrowing your clothes, eyes trained on . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

Tenderness

When you were a girl, you loved a kitten with such fierceness that you ground your teeth telling her how cute she was. It took . . .

Celeste Boudreaux

The Mother Tree

I came to the forest pondering the source of insight and generosity how to be loving and life-giving in a season of culminations and...

Celeste Boudreaux

Multiplicity

I used to think I was alone here within myself alone in my struggle to be who I thought I ought to be

Celeste Boudreaux

Shitty Shame

Shame is shit From toddlerhood we are taught to hold it, control it to flush it into oblivion Yet, try as we might we are never free of...

Celeste Boudreaux

The Egg

I am one who waits within the midnight of this shell I feel my own fragility all the possibilities for disaster cracked exterior and...

Celeste Boudreaux

The Stray Kitten

When I was a girl I found a stray kitten Feral and frightened it ran and hid and would not come to my kitty-kitty calls But my love was...

Celeste Boudreaux

Beginnings, Part 2

I wrote that "For Celeste" poem in 2012 when I was in the middle of a health crisis that had set me on a path of desperately seeking a...

Celeste Boudreaux

Beginnings, Part 1

For Celeste I see you, though you try to hide Blending into the wall Daughter of a defective mother (Whose empty eyes betray her lipstick...