by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
Years ago I had the privilege of laughing through my tears at the wild intensity of water leaping where I had felt only barren. The laughter was for that deepest comedienne, the God who answered so lavishly, highlighting the smallness of my plea. And...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
You said you would love me forever and I noticed my body responding as if to a threat and when I listened to this fear I saw a beautiful stallion with liquid brown eyes and deep passion and me every day with the rake, the buckets and hoses, tied to my...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
You do need to write them down otherwise the words fly away indifferent only rarely will the same come back and naturally you will lose a few, the birds that fly away because you can’t make space to feed them but if you let too many go the...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
My body will not go where my heart is not welcome, my heart will not travel where there is no room for my soul. I am knocking in the hope that you are there to open up. For too long I travelled with scissors, folding and cutting our white page to create...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I need you to stand up not in manliness but in the soft strength of your man-woman self so I can stand freely in mine and we can comfort each other. I need you to grow up and help me grow down and find a way to know that we travel together to a place of not...
