Less Loveable Lifeforms Like Me
Celebrate saving the less charismatic Write odes to plankton, snail and flies, Our love of birds and mammals may be automatic, But we struggle to value lichen in our lives.…
Tag: Poetry
Advice for Girls Burnt as Witches in Past Lives
Advice for girls who wake up smelling smoke: the fire isn’t lit yet, And if they come to take you to the pyre scratch every bit of them you can…
December
When the darkest days come we come together, We may never know why happiness sets us apart but, tragedy stretches out a hand and lips to kiss it better. And…
Go Tell it to the Bees
Tell the bees that I have died, They used to say that if the hives weren’t told of a birth or death in the family they would leave the keeper,…
Solarpunk
I have spent so much time on war, The more time I spent singing for peace The more I became a piece of wasted fury, Maybe not wasted when anger…
How To Begin
When you walk into a psychologists office they offer you a seat a glass of water and a stupid question: how are you? Fine. How to begin? At some point…
A Soft Day
Rain so light, call it mist Gathering on me almost unnoticed Except for my glasses And the pond’s splashes And where it bruises the apple blossoms. Call it misting, a…
Soil
My mother says when her hands are inside the soil that is how she goes to church. It took me two decades to really understand. It took me finding my…
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