It felt stilted Like a bend in a hinge That was rusted It felt like a wrong turn Yet I turned it anyway Walking hand in hand With the wrong thing Clasping a bucket Already leaking And trying to make it there Before the water All Drains Out I can convince myself of anything Except […]
Is it you? Is it me? As I watch your back Disappearing around a rack of clothes In bemusement I wonder Is it you? Is it me? What does it take to make someone duck and dive Avoidance? Clearly. Paranoia Used to grip me “Oh God what have I done?” But the answer became the […]
There is a whisper It says You should be doing Something else If I am writing, I should be doing the accounts If I’m cooking, I should be working out If I’m gardening, I should be cleaning the house And on and on it goes If I’m reading, I should be ironing If I’m ironing […]
How do you write so much? How do you write so little? There are a billion ways to string a sentence together To approach a word And ask for it’s hand In yours As you dance With a pen So when you worry If I write too much Won’t I run out? I have to […]
I’m sitting on a plane One row forward and to my right A little girl hurts herself Parental panic! Here have your dolly Crying continues A lolly My phone Here look at this book The crying grows louder Dad hugs And pats Continues to offer distractions Distract Distract She cries louder Finally softening into sobs […]
Some days the world feels surreal Normal routines Comforting things Have a ripple running through the middle A hint of chaos A touch of the bazar Like someone left The door ajar To another dimension Around which is peering A completely different direction If I were to follow it for awhile I would find it […]
This fragile sheath That our souls are wrapped in You know it collapses don’t you? You know our bodies are finite? Our hearts cease to beat Brains to function And these arms and legs That like to run To dance Will stop moving one day Yet people stuff their mouths and veins with things that […]
Autumn wind Cool and smelling of green And brown Of earth and grass And moisture For however long it lasts It greets me as I turn the corner of the house Look out to the paddocks Rolling away into the distance Fill my lungs My eyes My mind My heart Mother Nature is changing her […]
Atrophy We are born to die To peak and decline Stars burning bright Until they burst Disintegrate Become star dust Our energy dispersed to live again It is the way of nature The universe We cannot buck the trend It’s not a matter of if But when So live while you can And enjoy the […]
The moon she shines A reminder We all matter Our lives putter along One day after another Sometimes it feels someone else Is more important Husband Kids Parents Boss You tell yourself your being kind Giving Generous But really you’re safe there in the wings Not attracting any attention Your name always mentioned In conjunction […]
