seasons

when you are winter

it’s quiet here as if Grief is at last asleepAnd Loss departed, Words are wordless and even Yearning distracted by this stillness. The Pain of the World is in momentary lightnesshanging above like an ancient blanket. Here, the river is still water, oceans waveless and immutable. Is this the breath halted to an exhale? TheContinue reading “when you are winter”

Frontiers

I can feel the new in my whole body – the changes and shifts of my inner membranes. My chest-cave expands with fresh breath. And how much is leaving just like a small death. The places that have held me demand their farewells. The hills that have been a home, paths that have a storyContinue reading “Frontiers”

Pericardium

In the hollow cave of heart lie the remains of a love, the bones.you carry this death with you Every Where a walking graveyard. When you try and speakthese bones lodge in the small openings of your throat. How many others hold on to the dead like this? a world that knows not about lettingContinue reading “Pericardium”