Tilted
I wish these dreams were solid. The answers would lie before me, easy questions, easy as counting matchsticks in the dark. Setting them ablaze would warm me, the orange flicker cupped gently in my...
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Strong morning sunlight and a single spider’s thread stands between me and there, a world of dew-drops, silent winter frost. I look up to see a chaffinch land in a flash of white wing feathers, slate...
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Somewhere in the half-light hangs my moon, a silver veil, beams of change transforming shadows, dusty corners. The night breeze has a chill edge and I am bound, too much on my mind to sleep. Light...
View ArticleLady of the Lake
Beyond these hills in a darkening sky the wind blows in a gust of stars and I dream of flying, stepping off this plinth of stone, to stretch my wings and fly like the birds do, in wind and sun, over...
View ArticleWarm Currents
When I woke this morning, not really awake, paddling along the surface of a dream like a swan, I thought this must be what a soul is like, always there but hidden on the other side of dark. I could be...
View ArticleIn the Hush
In the distance the land and sky collide, the wind picks up, the night closes in and I’m lost in the slow tumble down, the fear of it, the mildew, dust, the shadows in the deep reaches of dream sleep,...
View ArticleSomewhere Out There
In the pre-dawn gloomy light voices on the morning breeze guide me beyond the door and down the narrow slope, … Continue reading »
View ArticleListening
i. Summer is passing and I wonder where all the voices go, the ones that never end rising in a … Continue reading »
View ArticleSoul Mountain
What the water gave me - the sense of an ending, witch light, wild geese, astonishing splashes of colour, butterfly … Continue reading »
View ArticleLost in Blue
That moment of waking, deserted streets, a pale washed out sky, a woman out alone, her footsteps tip tapping along … Continue reading »
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