It rises teaching me how to rise too. To leave everything on the ground Evaporate towards the clouds Becoming more transparent All around Fog to mist vapour to air Join with the clouds Come back down again As gentle rain That feeds the ground Grows the grass Nitrogen Descended Transformed Excreted Rises Transforms Deleted Never. […]
Tiny pebble skips easily across a pond It’s light Quick Exuberant A boulder drops heavy Creates a huge splash Falls to the bottom Water rushing to cover It is weighted Passive Lies inert Blocks the throat Momentarily No matter their size The pebble and the boulder still end up at the bottom of the river […]
Thoughts are things They have weight Texture Sound Colour Outlines Tiny pieces of art This apple That tree An autumn leaf Spiralling down Down Down To the ground At least they do for me So vivid and clear And I wonder if that is half the power in their ability to distract Make me believe […]
Top of brain tells me what I should do But somewhere in the middle something slides askew The vegetables remain languishing in the fridge As across the kitchen bench the white bread skids two pieces Pushed down into the toaster Two minutes later Dripping with butter And marmalade I munch in satisfying wonder Is it […]
From around age ten we begin taking out contracts Invisible signatures In indeliblee ink That say I know you And you know me But I don’t remember signing Away the right to forget Everything, and begin again *header picture of a tribe of boys playing on the beach. I was entranced by their rough and […]
I stood at the foot of a soaring Red Cedar Time and weather had scoured its surface Its roots rose out of the earth in places Where storms had eroded the ground around their blind faces The bark was knarled and fierce Scarred with kicks Divots of hide lifted by whatever chanced by. My neck […]
