Peter Cashorali
This World is a Single Green Leaf,
As vast as fragile,
As present as unlikely,
Growing by the side
Of one of its own roads,
Its root hid under
Our amazement,
That someone we knew
Once told us about,
That we took on faith or not
Until we saw it
First time ourselves.
Peter Cashorali is a neurodivergent queer psychotherapist in private practice in Portland and Los Angeles. Recent work occurs or is upcoming in Synkroniciti, Midwest Zen, Braided Way, Gas Journal, and Brief Wilderness. Earlier work is Gay Fairy Tales (HarperSanFrancisco:1995) and Gay Folk and Fairy Tales (Faber and Faber:1997).