in my child body i swam in the brown swirl of dam water, mud, and eels' whiskers and the temperature comforted or plunged around me - the shock of it - so i wriggled to action seeking comfort again not knowing where in my adult body i'm again adrift at the mercy of wafting shocks … Continue reading Like Swimming in a Dam
the gurus conduct - fingers circle hover prod like batons screens slip, slide and rotate obediently there should be accompanying chords: dramatic and aching; or light, trippy ecstatic but i bend over like an unhappy witch with a cauldron that won't bubble i stoke the fire in all those weird 21st Century ways unplug reboot … Continue reading iPad Blues
A billion years ago I must've swallowed a star just a tiny one with pointy edges occasionally prickly but also a lucky birth light carrying and carried all this time - presumed eternal. Last night it burst - all the shards of it pressing into the extremes of my torso sputtering and flickering the painful … Continue reading Star Burst
Inspired by this story: ABC News this mud, you say, came from yonder creek all frothing brown tea and gentle chatter among cicada's fierce racket and spearing acacia this mud, you say, wandered in 18,000 years ago on the feet of wasps, as busily they tessellated their bulbous home, 3D printing on this shaggy wall … Continue reading Mud from a Chattering Creek
there's a great saying in Croatian "aku nemash u glavi imash u nogama" basically it means if you don't have it in the head you must have it in the legs i mean, just today, i put the chooks away and then had to run back later to get the chook bucket and make sure … Continue reading Brain / Feet Interactions
Just as the galaxy hurls interstellar objects past our telescopes in teasing hint of what else may be today a secret was thrown in my window a mystery chunk all glittered up with the shock of its smashing the note said "Guardian of this rock seek not its true owner for ye shall spread great … Continue reading The Secret
On my phone, I am great at the typo and a poor editor. So when I write notes or ideas on my phone, some interesting text emerges when I come back to it hours or days later. This poem is attempting to have fun with some of those errors. The morning is cool - a … Continue reading Captain Raven
Sometimes luxury is as simple as a window with green outside i look past the couch to the many-tinctured leaves and am grateful and i realize that greenery (plant-life) is not incidental or purely aesthetic it doesn't have to be scientific or environmental it is eye-medicine as well as ALL those other things it is … Continue reading Green is My Breath
washed up like seaweed, writhed and swept; curled into herself on grit and fear; a body embattled. she rises pale from the sand, eyes like luminescent plums holding steady against the storm’s furious exhale but at her back another wave; an angry stampede of tumbled elements buckling her knees. *** she plunges forward through furious … Continue reading Resilience
It's an occasion everyone looking top-notch tables and waiters everywhere and lots of people from my past. My best friend from primary school looks great in a pixie hair cut and a shapeless orange dress, her lips slightly goldened but we smile across each other our eyes like repellent magnets never touching sight. Another friend … Continue reading When Dreams Untie
