Nature doesn’t change because you want her to Nor does she listen If you wish to argue with her current status Nature doesn’t bend to the whimsy of others And I’ve never heard a tree complain Even when it is struck asunder by lightning Nor the ground run away frightened By the intensity of the […]
Seen collectively Trees are easy to dismiss as all the same Time spent with them however Tells a different story They are each unique From bark pattern to leaf To colour to lean To growth And that is one species alone So I go where trees grow To untangle my own Feelings Because feelings To […]
How often we return to the past Because we knew what happened then How it ended And it feels safe Even though Perhaps it failed Or we did Yet the pages had spun all the way to the end And we knew now we could begin again Although the past is always catching up It […]
Iwho have often hid in the midst of noiseLaughterTurning aside the more penetrating gazeWith a wall of clever wordsIWho thought the cocoon only produced butterfliesTurns outPhoenix and dragonsRise on wings of silencefrom jagged tooth wombs And the birth means annihilation To the bearer She died I was born And now I wear the scars that […]
The constriction of abiding In a worn out hide Because unlike the snake I never took to scales My rebalancing Occurs On the inside We come into life Poured into a tiny vessel And identify with a face A body That is pure transformation A reflection greets the day We say Ahh Here she is […]
I thought it was grief Sadness It felt so heavy Important I sat with it for awhile Beneath morning stars Salt water Began to trickle Such was the pressure building This weight in my chest Crushing My heart flipped behind my ribs a landed fish trying to make sense of oxygen From out in the […]
Land Isn’t dirt It is something higher It holds It grows It breathes It covers itself in tapestries of wildflowers And allows the breeze to carry the seeds It is free and travels in dust Falls in love And covers my jacket My hands Fills the lines beside my eyes One day it will find […]
Horizon turning Apricot to blue I want to grasp This moment Before the sun While the moon is still bright Already the stars Have left the sky And the tall gum tree behind Is becoming more defined Leaf by leaf We cannot hold time For it is inexorably marching toward forever And the only way […]
Stack the firewood Kindling Paper Woosh Combustion is a warm red glow In a dark space With uneven outlines Each morning Igniting my heart Inducing the sweat Cedar lined womb Returning to the primordial realm Softening Beginning again And the words drift away behind me When I close the door And take my seat Becoming […]
The cloud was like a dragon It terrified me I flipped it into a flower And now I am free Thoughts come and go We don’t have to construe We can let them be clouds And allow them to move Freely
