Monthly Archives: May 2014

When you tumble Remember to tuck your head in tight To your chest Let gravity spin you And momentum carry you Look forward not back And plant those feet firmly On the ground When you land Catch the raindrops On … Continue reading →

When you pop the bubblewrap And the air is released When you lift the stones One by one And look underneath What’s there? Is it of substance Or does it float away On a wave of exhaustion And exhilaration? When … Continue reading →

All its facets sparkled in the sun Casting tiny rainbows on my goose bumped skin On arms wrapped round knees Under my chin It sat on its golden hill The start and finish binding Possessing and holding An ownership on … Continue reading →

From the youngest age I was not in control, of my body, my choices or my decisions. Growing up as a girl through the mid 70s and a teen in the 80s I bore witness to a culture shifting to … Continue reading →

When it was midnight And I was holding on to the thread You were waking Your sun coming up Over mountains I lay in a dark Made for me And a longing embraced me Instead of you And my skin … Continue reading →

The splitting started just after we began You will stand there And you will stand there You will wear this And you will be that And the strongest decided And they threw around that weight And they took what they … Continue reading →