Time Heals Most Things
I was only 22.So young for that job.Started in it twelve months earlier. She had taken sleeping pills. Her on-again off-again had found her in …
Tag: Poetry
My Six Day Old Daughter at a Wedding
It isn’t my weddingBut my heart is with anotherIt is not with me The bride had it, smiling, speaking with guestsbut she is now passing …
Listening to Country
She speaks through the landscapenot caring for clutter,undaunted by quarries, roads and mines,below black bitumen she breathes.While high rise homes obliterate wild coasts,and rampant weeds …
window dressing
elegant long bluetaildragonflies, wingsiridescent like stainedglass art delicate upturned spokesof dandelion seedslifting, leaving each motheron an invisible wind intermingling, conversingon a pale turquoise wash of …
Too important for goodbye
I tell you ‘later.’That I’ll see you next time.I remind you to stay safe,Or eat well.To take care. Sometimes I’ll laugh and add‘Be good’Even knowingYou …
The Rival
You never come to the door anymore, Flatmate, the unwilling deputy, pushes it open again Silently All out of small talk, she’s evaporated I trudge …
Acts of Love
Paris drew onthe thousand shipsand burned the ancient world But Itake a coinfor the trolley Looking for bananasjust betweengreen and yellow Read the sugar contentof …
Apology to the Tooth Fairy
Do you know how manyhalf-drunk glasses of waterwere left out onbenches, tables, desks, chairslast night I had to roam the house likea Victorian match girlcollecting …
Here Is My Ocean
A seat, a puddle of sunlightNot much, just a small circle of light that bounds meAnd a viewA view of the world outsideAs I riffle …
Resolution
This year,I will Set aside time tostare out the windowand wonder why my headis full of nothing Open my heart to all inspirationand waitwith widespread …