I have a photography human story project going on Substack. No need to subscribe. If you do it is free. What I love about this project is a lady on the other side of the world announced in my comments she was off to strike up a conversation with her butcher after she read my […]
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 […]
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 pace Back and forth Around I’ve learned the perimeter The parameters of my cage The responsibilities The expectations People I love, the look upon their face When I disappoint Confuse Fail We are born from womb To box And then like Russian dolls We move Through a series of ever shrinking coffins until one […]
Feet Step Lightly on the earth My eyes know how far My mind recalls But my heart doesn’t care Suffering is something the body bears My soul surrounds me like a glove holding me up casting me further down the road I roll like a stone Over and over And eventually the mind Stops it’s […]
Creating Is an energy A force A power That we can tap into anytime It’s free And available to everyone It’s our birthright. Be still Know that I am.. you. A child squats in the sand Building castles Drawing faces, making dreamy plans As adults stare at screens Consuming. A child builds a cubby house […]
Happiness is a dog I feed Clicking my fingers saying “Come on“ “Come here“ In the evening breeze I stroke its soft fur And peace ripples through me Anxiety is a monster that I feed I twine my fingers restlessly “Come here“ “Come here“ I add to it with dire thoughts and panic particles arise […]
This thing exists Good or bad Joyous or sad or fractious and intense Within a border Within a fence Whilst ever I can keep it there A frame I can reframe No matter what comes along Make it say love Instead of confusion Make it say love Instead of grief Place other things beside it […]
Crystal star Light to prism Rainbow shard A reaction based on direction An inanimate projection a dumb perception Of reality right now I watch my thoughts bouncing off my brain The totality of a seconds computation Of who I am In this skin today In this moment. Not really Not that either I am so […]
I looked under the cushions on the couch The fourth drawer down (that contains tangled bits and bobs) I looked in my dressing table trinkets case Dug under piles of lace Unearthed missing pairs to odd socks And found many other things I had “lost” Yet I couldn’t put my hands on it. I looked […]
