Birdkeeper’s daughter

On the edges of change, these margins of leaving are tangible; unhurried detachment of shell from its warm insides, a gradual strengthening of where you end and I begin, no more indistinct boundaries of my body or yours.  Our home underground houses a bird of miracleher shadow stains your white clean walls; nevertheless, you feed her well and loveContinue reading “Birdkeeper’s daughter”

I want to be alive with you

Within this pain, you’ll find the seed of its healing. If you’re ever lost as to what meaning your meagre life holds, look into the darkness of your days. Look into the eyes of the addictions, the perpetual disempowerment of self. There, you’ll find your gift. The core of your shadow will reveal the lightContinue reading “I want to be alive with you”

I take my grief to the river

In the light of love, there’s grief I take my grief and sit with itAnd in the light of grief, there’s grace I soften in all that is outside myself: storms of loss, patterns of sadness, a world sick and begging for help And in the light of us, there’s day trips that never happenedpoemsContinue reading “I take my grief to the river”

to live in a body of pain

I don’t fit well in my body, some daysmy body does not contain me, in ways it feels as if my body’s not minelacking in joy and what’s divine  Like womb rejecting a coiled foetus, my skin rejects my belonging so I fill myself up beyond fullness, with longing testing the boundaries of expansion I want to love and learnContinue reading “to live in a body of pain”