Up in smoke

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 […]

Hope

I run across feathersand attribute meaningWhisper“Hello MumIt’s okayI’m still living”Circling pelicansLow to the groundFormation is oddLike my compassLatelyNorthIsSouthWorld upside downYet stillI feel the stringsFrom my heartConnect to something greater than mePulling me forwardFearlesslyAnd the pragmatist would sayI’m dreamingLost in wonderlandGrow upThere’s bad out thereYou should have seen it comingAnd I would sayI can’t explain the […]

Obliterating

There is an energy to a weighted word I should remember this Instead they came out of my mouth like water from a tap No drip All gush flurry and noise Things that made no sense Yet they landed light and cheery Floated away to the tree Fell like a leaf They carried no meaning […]

The internal church

Inside the cathedral of self Where stained glass Casts patterns on the floor I breathe in reverence and sit In bombed out pews Where tabernacle shines radiant in the ventricles of the heart The roof is a blue sky open to the birds and Tumbled bricks and stone Form a foot rest My spiritual home […]