The way you said my name Sounded different to everyone else The way you combined the first And the second Kathryn Anne Instantly pulling me into line Like a knot drawn taut in my stomach The way you would say it tenderly, gently, lulling me to sleep Hand upon my hair Or helping me to […]
To hold the hand flat on a searing surface Would be unthinkable Unbearable Psychical pain Physical pain Are equal They both light up the same area of the brain To hold a thought, a memory, of great pain unflinchingly Is as meaningful as taking a knife to our own jugular Yet we do it Constantly […]
There is a fox about I heard its strange high pitched calling the other night As I sat cheeks rosy in the firelight My feet dug into the cold earth Soil trickling between my bare toes My dogs barked and howled at the stranger come sniffing about But I knew it was no stranger calling […]
Sunrise golden beamsThrough dark wood blindsPatterns against the wallGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessStripes that envelope my handMy shoulderMy torsoMy legsWithGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessGoldenDarknessI am a striped beingOf golden and darknessAnd I take these patterns with meInto the world This was Day 7 of the dirtythirty challenge on Facebook. I liked it so have included it here for those that aren’t partaking in […]
I don’t want to poem about heavy things Not on an evening so light as this Where the sky is fine bone china Suffused with coral and fuchsia Pierced by a single jet trail My eyes follow it Up and up and up I wonder where it is headed I feel the warmth of the […]
It’s amazing how much a mind can stuff up a life Luckily, some people are sign posts Some places are fuel stations And the heart is a compass that doesn’t need Google As long as we pay attention If pain is expensive Denial is exorbitant And in seeking to distract ourselves, we could very well […]
For so long I missed you Small hands tucked in mine I missed your strangling hugs And deep clinging love The way you wanted to be wherever I was You filled my ears with a thousand clever questions For so long I looked back with slithers of regret Shards of sharp ripe feeling I wished […]
It is raining like a rag squeezed hard Big drops and dollops Softening eventually into intermittent showers Beneath these timorous sounds lies the nightly conversation of insects I wonder what they say, do they talk to each other or nature itself? Where does nature begin and end? We humans seem to separate ourselves from it, […]
Who loves you when you forget to love yourself? Who whispers into your ear “hey, take it easy?” just when you need it Who is the support that you can lean on, when your stomach has butterflies, you’re nervous, doubting yourself, thinking “can I do this thing that I have set myself?” Who replies fervently […]
There is something timeless about nature Unflappably effortlessly implacable We look into it and feel our hearts slow down a beat Watch a flock of birds circle Even in the busy city streets With honking cars And busy feet The clouds drift gently above A breeze dries the sweat on my cheek And she saves […]
