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 […]
Humans We think that if we carefully contain ourselves Inside our scant and small stretched hides That we will not be judged Cursed with criticism And if we do the “right” thing We shall abide in that all encompassing comfortable thing Called acceptance But I have discovered we are not made for acceptance Such a […]
The lessons that come Wrapped in skin Who walk alongside for a while Glimmers of laughter Sparkles of smiles Wisdom dropped like tea leaves Percolated through a filter of life experience Thoughts meandering Emerging as something new Different points of view Threads pulled into a tapestry by fate Some will last a lifetime echoing on […]
The roadnear Barcaldine,where the trees are tall and ancient—older than fences,certainly older than bitumen. I thought of what the trees bear witness to.Saw my mumwhen she was young,driving this road.It would have been dirt back then,and very long. I heard her gently singing songs.She had two sons,red dust in their hair,playing eye spy.Back then.Back there. […]
Don’t shave off your bark Don’t hack back the wild places Where unique blooms straight up Bright like a scarlet bougainvillea frond Conformity is over rated and bland Opinions are formless They slip down the uncurated Tumbling straight off raw edges There is nothing to hold them In a chuckle and wry shake of head […]
If you don’t love what you make You won’t look after it when times are tough Imagine if you gave birth to your children And didn’t love them Didn’t love them like you would die in their place In a second Without a thought Not an inkling of hesitation Imagine what would happen to them […]
A dog digging a hole is happy Sometimes they are digging to bury a bone Or investigate a noise Lost in the digging they avoid all thought other than I Am Digging But when they surface happily panting A little wild eyed Is when the reality arrives And they wonder if perhaps that great and […]
What if what’s up there isn’t heaven? What if hell is not below? What if both are not places but presences — things that live in the spaces all around us, shifting their nature according to our thoughts? What if we know nothing about death or dying? What if we don’t go anywhere — we’re […]
I sat alone utterly happy — because my passing thoughts are great company when I’m happy. And when I’m otherwise engaged, they’re the only company I can tolerate. — This isn’t a dark post — just a simple truth known to most writers. We are a thousand voices and memories, compressed into one fleeting, fragile […]
DawnThe last star of the night stays up late to saygood morning to the brave, the weary, the inspired, The ones on fire The ones that riseNo matter whatEvery day She stays up lateJust to make sure they are okay Her early risers And just as humans wish on the first star of the eveningOur […]
