Deep time
We are sitting in the dimmed lights, feet on warm pine floor, in a circle,
watching the flickering screen of home spun film from long ago,
(or not so long,
depending on how long you’ve lived,)
watching children like ours,
and parents like us,
playing with these cards,
this tree house,
running around this garden,… Read more
Trinity
Trinity
These three;
chair,
bench,
table,
the trinity,
Have held my family;
My boys and me.
From babes slopping and slurping mush,
massaging orange sweet potato into the whorls and whirls of the
naked, unprotected wood.
To toddlers climbing on the curved wooden chairs to finger rainbows in sticky paint.
School books taking flight … Read more
If you could be happier
If you could be happier with how you looked
you would spend less on products which didn’t do what they promised,
animals wouldn’t be tested on,
you wouldn’t poison your face like a rat,
the industry would collapse.
What might grow instead?
If you could be happier with moving slowly,
you wouldn’t need … Read more
Words for 2022
I am gathering words for 2022 because:
Language is how we humans understand, mediate, construct and control our reality, it is how we communicate with ourselves, each other and the more than human world. Changing language is powerful, we can use it to:
I want to re-member
– to put things back together, maybe … Read more
Make like a tabby
This is my cat.
He knows what he wants.
He stands by the door when he wants us to go out.
He stands by his bowl when he wants food.
He comes to sit on us when he wants a hug.
He plays when he wants to play,
Walks away when he has had enough… Read more
Pencils
Do you remember pencils?
Solid,
Wood?
In primary school, Miss White’s class, I loved to stand by her desk and sharpen her pencils, in one of those machines with metal ears which you pinched to open the fierce, gripping mouth, which help the pencils, while you turned the handle to sharpen the pencil.
Remember?
Remember … Read more
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