by heather | Oct 12, 2014 | Sources of Inspiration
Wonderful talks – I can’t wait to hear more of them from this year’s conference – and inspiring podcasts. For when you need the sisterhood. http://www.emergingwomen.com/
by heather | Oct 12, 2014 | Poems
This voice sounding puzzled, tasting old words as if they have new flavours, this is me speaking as a poet; transcribing real moments into words that hang together briefly. They rise from ordinary things, teakettles, my gratitude for socks, the toilet paper...
by heather | Oct 7, 2014 | Poems
Is this the kind of mud with no ripples, the kind where a person squats and gets stuck, where the falling in has no circles extending? Happy in my own muck, content to go no farther, is this a wasted journey or lotus...
by heather | Sep 9, 2014 | Poems
My gift is not in fixing but in stepping back with paintbrush poised or cordless drill or flashlight to say this is broken and breathe in the woundedness and possibility to find ways of lingering but not overlong, touched by what is here and what may...
by heather | Sep 9, 2014 | Poems
They have travelled so far already, battered bodies fighting current pushing upriver when life calls them home – some of them sooner than average, jacks who take one for the team, a dance with diversity. No head or arms to distance them from...
