The dreaming house
A grandfather builds a cubby for his grandson. A little house for dreaming, and for slowing down.
Tag: family
What is the covenant and what is the ark? Is it simply an agreement made with the heart?
In the gap between this task and another and this thought and the next one and the concern I have for this and that other thing which might occur and all of this mental weight and the physical burden the sheer enormity of stuff to do Is there any space for love? And is loving […]
Ask the stars
To know how to live Don’t ask humans Ask the stars I wish I knew them Many are dead and already gone And yet their light continues on Perhaps in that fact Is the kernel of truth Live so what you leave burns forward too Our bodies are fragile and have to die But who […]
Memories like these
Sparkling lights of a Ferris wheel Carry me up so high Over the trees A vast ocean breathes As I turn on this circle in the sky The cage that holds me gently sways My cheeks are sore from smiling Dark sky New moon Stars Surrounded by those I love Most A slide of winter […]
A crowded sky
I breathe salty air and try to calm the pressure that sits on my chest Swollen heart hangs like ripe fruit trapped behind a rib cage I would gladly prise open just to set it free Let it swirl high on the updraft like a sea eagle – I hear how they cry – that […]
Don’t waste your miracle on your pain
This morning it is raining again The sea is whipped into frenzied foaming white capped horses that beat at the shore and trample everything in their path To enter the ocean is like walking into a stampede, and who would do that? Not me, I wander along the high ground looking out Relishing the soft […]
Branching out
A part of me will always be missing Where once I was whole You cannot add limbs to a tree And not feel the lack when they fall Leaves turn colour, seeds fly away on the wind They land in other forests and begin again Once a heart has split , it will always be […]
Weary Tunes
A tree sitting in the garden Locked into place Held by roots, it cannot escape And yet it changes Season cycles turn green to brown Faded leaves fall and flutter to the ground Snakes that expand and lose their skin Growing a new one they begin again A cliff face may take a thousand years […]
Humpty Dumpty (why people can’t be put back together again by other people)
The egg is a casing, fine and fragile Inside there is life We see the outer membrane, white and hard Easily cracked – temper exploding And it reminds me The exterior is not all there is. A soul dwells deep within No soft fluffy chick, given But still, there lies within all of us, more […]
Tact
Stubborn in the set of his shoulders rigid through the spine and all of this seen and sensed from behind known to me since before he was born I didn’t need to look in his eyes to know that this argument was not mine so I gracefully cleared the court changed the subject moved on. […]