Full moon Obscured by wind blown clouds I stand watching What shakes trees Rattles the sheets of iron on the roof Scatters my yoga mat Off the deck Unfurled like a tongue Stopped mid sentence It hits a wall I stretch taller My feet planted on the floor The clouds part My heart yawns and […]
One part writes Another posts Another reads And along comes yet another Who deletes But the one who deletes And the one who writes Are so far removed from one another That sometimes I wonder How we all live in the same body I’m deleting myself again. That is what it amounts to when the […]
The saddest thing And perhaps the gladest Of having a brain and filter like mine Is this: I Don’t Envision ten years from now Or even perhaps Next year I live so completely in the present A small example .. It was a tragedy when my children left They were grown of course No drama […]
What is growth really? And why are dogs far more content than humans?
Is it something evolution built into us To chase the carrot of Never ever not enough? And if it is Then the current climate Is injecting this propensity With steroids My feed is full of bargains and sales They tell me I need But I know that need is a want And the want is […]
Should I tell that tree to stop being Or the scent of laundry drying The feel of Hot cement beneath my feet The smell of artesian water Dank with frogs blanket green The sound of a windmill groaning Or a Willy wag tail cursing At 3am The heat The stars The smell of dusty grass […]
You met me when I was sad And thought me fragile You met me when I was joyful And thought me strong Right Wrong It doesn’t matter We are myriad A flock of selves A murmuration rising Tumbling Falling Spiralling We are nothing And no one And everything that is You read my words And […]
My life is a drama And I’m tired of the stage Exhausted from emotion And turning the page The scene plays music I turn it down And walk to the edge Of the concrete path Pluck flowers Weeds turn face to the sky The wind is so cold I think if I were actually in […]
We sing see saw margarydoor And swing in the dappled shade Your laugh is a gurgle I feel in my chest Sunlight flickering against my eyelids Me with my mother My sons And now you See saw margerydoor You lean back I sigh Swing higher look into the sky And we are almost one As […]
I sat with silence And it told me so many things It told me one way And then the opposite And then folded back on itself Myself Again and again Maddeningly mercurial The conjurer in the end Is nothing but a voice box A wizard behind a screen The heart that was never placed in […]
What if ? Is difficult to sit with Live with Be We like finished stories Something we can see Yet as humans we are often in between Waiting on decisions Waiting on parcels Waiting on people Waiting on disaster Or perhaps that is just my existential dread speaking Still It makes me want to reach […]
