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 […]
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 […]
“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, […]
“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 […]
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 […]
