It is difficult to recall that the earth is a ball Floating around in space When horizons are flat The sky looks solid And we are stuck in the human race It’s difficult to know that the tree that grows Sprang forth from a random seed It’s puzzling we forget we are surrounded by magic […]
How quickly the day is consumed Minutia marching goose step command I steal back the time Just half an hour To watch the glimmer of sunlight on steel It fascinates It is real I imagine the journey it has been on to arrive here dropped under a tree half buried in dirt If it has […]
And what is jealousy if not desire? And how do we know what we desire without that sharp, uncomfortable tug in another direction? Once I viewed jealousy like this? I followed her as passionately as any other waking dream I’ve had So far, she has not led me astray
A candle flickers The torch light is straight and bright Moon lights half the world
Before the sun There are no shadows As the sun rises My walking shadow suddenly appears beside me *Which tells me everything I need to know about why so much growth happens only when we lose our fear and begin working in the light. Embracing the shadow as it appears, and upgrading the things that […]
I love people I see something I never saw when I was younger and usually so terribly nervous I see their softness The flight of their eyes The tumble of hands Gestures And I understand so much from watching bodies talk I stand in a room full of people in the grasp of communication And […]
There is a callus That develops In the middle of the chest In children as we are hurt The greater it spreads By the time we arrive in adulthood It is difficult to breathe Think Speak Through anything but hard scar tissue. So there is a need to take a scalpel and slowly start to […]
Black ink soaking through a white cloth Staining It can be washed and washed Difficult to remove A shadow will remain So what’s the use? Throw it away But what if it was a girl Or a boy Man or a woman Their psyche soiled treated like toys of the algorithm One negative comment Outweighs […]
In the dark of pre dawnBare feet slide on timber floorsThe smell of coffee Sharp as barbed wire Carefully they weave their nets Catching sleepy bugs (Photo in header) Red gold peeping Tom The sun peers over the edge Soon I’ll be walking Rain right on the cusp I gaze out the door into Change […]
I’m so enjoying chatting to everyday people about their hands for my project These 2 Hands. Up on substack today, is Sarah. I found Sarah inspirational in that she knew exactly why she was doing what she was doing and what her end vision was. It wasn’t a grand vision, it was purposeful. And that […]
