Here there is red tile,
a blue pane of water
and fat tight around
their necks, wrists, ankles,
loose around their stomachs.
They line up and wait,
we wait, the pane of water waits
for this unsanctioned championship -
no prize money, no pictures
in the local paper.
I will only remember what happened here
because I wrote it down.
They will only remember until
their pinkbellies fade,
the […]
I write: green on green attempting sky
but that is laziness or recklessness or worse.
This is brown of peeling bark,
skittering black legs, silver shine of abdomen.
This is curled grey fern, beige talon,
orange flash of throat.
This is fading sun and rising song.
This is light play on tree trunks
and rainwater spilled from leaf to leaf.
This is a thousand […]
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” General George S. Patton
Hair soft and black as obsidian,
Scent of sage.
Eyes glow like stars in the night sky,
Toothless or toothful smile –
a moon beam.
Scrunched in a ball, hands over face,
recovering from drug addiction,
trying to overcome homelessness,
“Come back tomorrow, okay?”
You are as gentle as morning star unfurling,
those […]
“I like shiny things….I used to steal them,”
my friend, weathered from homelessness and drugs,
says to me when we both sit inside a zipped canopy bed at Zaiko Hospital.
My seven year old daughter calls gleefully from inside the bathtub,
“open the towel wide like a bird’s wings that fly.”
At supper time, my ten year old son reflects […]
Walking the grid east of the abbey turns out
to be easier than you think, the four legs
of the square more like a kilometre long
than a mile, probably less, the wind
at your back on the first leg and not too bad
on the second, all along your eyes glued
to the moon in the east like the glowing […]
