Mia Overgaard: Dreams in the Forest

Summer

1. reading books about aliens, tribes, drugs, and cowgirls
2. meditating to fix my crooked chakras
3. skinnydipping and pretending to be a mermaid
4. yoga, hula-hooping, bellydancing, biking, and swimming to lose weight
5. quitting drinking, doing more entheogens
6. having tea parties with my imaginary friends
7. trying to make real friends/talking to strangers/going outside my comfort zone
8. making more terrible art about deserts and mushrooms
9. listening to glittery music
10. classes and working a job i don’t hate (for once)
11. camping and mushroom hunting
12. designing and getting feet tattoos
13. making sequin clothing, feather earrings, and turquoise necklaces
14. road trip to arizona
15. trying to live as beautifully as this all of the time
16. making my cosmic forest tribe a reality
17. writing bad beat poetry
18. playing ukulele and accordion and starting a harem pants band
19. dirty dancing in graveyards
20. wild summer sex all of the time
21. practice lucid dreaming with calea zacatechichi, algonquin tea, and meditation

Heart Broken

Sedona’s red rocks and vortexes, Church of God’s peyote tea and spirit walks, and Diamond Point’s crystals and forests, you are my future.

 I want a pet scorpion, I want to do peyote with coyotes under the stars, I want my face to be the color of your earth, I want to rub mica into my skin and shine like a million diamonds, I want to have a tea party in the desert, I want to find broken glass in the sand and pretend they’re dinosaur bones, I want to chain smoke with the cacti, I want to fall into your sunsets, I want to sit on top of a pueblo and howl at the moon, I want to climb a mountain and dive into a mirage.  

God dammit, Arizona, I need you in my bones.

Eveline Tarunadjaja