These are the words When there are no words When your head is empty And your heart is so full it may burst These are the words That bubble up Behind a tongue that is lodged To the roof of the mouth Jaw locked Throat blocked These are the words That hum As the body […]
There is a pane of glass In my house That the light shines through At 4pm In winter That sunbright shaft Touches the leaves of a plant in the corner That otherwise lives in the dark all day I hold my fingers to the glow Feel them warm Dust motes twirl Turned to gold Magical. […]
We limp along carrying certainty That bucket full of holes Only the pieces I drop Have ever told the truth Today I dropped the burden And walked With empty hands The energy was certain My fingers curled in air It was the bucket that was heavy I tried to carry everything in Without the handle […]
At some stage You become enough And when people walk away You don’t chase If they feel inclined to stay That’s nice Some may prevaricate Standing on the threshold They may threaten you with their absence Or not call Write Hoping you will close your eyes And yearn But don’t, because This is thing they […]
Transformation in the human Is not so obvious as in nature We arrive at the melting pot And overthink The very brink At which it occurs Repeatedly. The caterpillar doesn’t know How not to grow It follows instinct into the cocoon Obliterated it waits Its wings don’t appear They self create And at some point […]
Mary Oliver goes to the woods And I go to my garden Epiphanies bloom like flowers I inhale aromatics Taste parsley and mint Coriander and sage Make herbal teas from the Rosella Lemon balm And thyme Bundles of chives, Kale Bok choy Choy sum And the common lettuce Are added to my breakfast I pluck […]
I look at my toes and see my brothers The face in the mirror resembles my mothers Shadows flick along the ground above a hawk is circling The person who lives And loves in this world Is just a memory walking The intensity of this life sometimes…you can call it hard – or you can […]
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 […]
I must learn Not to let them loose These words inside build up Spill over It’s difficult If I let them run I am empty and peaceful But then Somethings should stay within Even though they eat With sharp teeth And go round and round When you have so many words You have to be […]
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 […]
