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 […]
La pioggia stilla The rain drips|trickles … La pioggia scivola The rain slides|glides … La pioggia cade lieve The rain falls softly …. La pioggia sussurra The rain whispers … La pioggia sussurra alla finestra The rain whispers at the window Ahhhhh Vivi nella bellezza Live in beauty … I’m learning Italian. My mind is […]
The words that slip past Through The unguarded moment Truth? Or just murmurings of another face That dwells within. I contain multitudes But which one is speaking? *This morning it is the writer, yesterday it was the business woman, sometimes it would seem like a fool when I am chattering to my six month old […]
God delivered me joy in a box The box was a human And I had to give it back But by then I had everything I needed To contain My own happiness again I tucked it in a pocket Located beneath my skin Like an otter with a stone Sometimes now I’m home I take […]
Who we are When we are asleep Is up for review I think Therefore I am But in sleep I dream Therefore I can Show myself the measure Of a potential Out of reach And waking Is a choice Of life Over sleep But I am aware Of every moment As complacency creeps On soft […]
I learned from the flood that it will stop raining eventually and the water will reach up to the eaves submerge the roof until the house dissapears and so does the earth but eventually the sky ceases to cry and the flood recedes the ground to dry and then grow grass and no one looking […]
Wild is a feeling That the fox knows well As she slips through the grass Ears held low Wild is a feeling That the hawk cries aloud As it circles high Above the ground Wild is the tree And wild is the flower And isn’t wild just another word For a lack of control Autonomous […]
The alluvial cast Of gravel beneath tyre Skittish and dusty Rubber above Metallic stone beneath Two surfaces colliding One soft and resilient The other sharp and stone Sounds like a puncture About to occur Or worse A combination of the crunch Shoulder to earth Perhaps A shattered collarbone Humans bones are extremely fragile Tense muscles […]
The older you grow The more words begin to sound the same as the feeling they invoke Shallow Broken Peeling And I wonder if that is because we know their meaning with such intensity Because it has been felt At depth Within Tip toed across tender skin That they conjure instantly Holograms to dance upon […]
Silence When everything is a mess Silence When it all shatters in your hands Silence Holds everything together Until reality takes over again Silence Is where God waits Silence Is where thinking ends And if you Just Descend Heart open Mouth closed Mind floating Silence Is Where it all begins again
