by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
Now that you are gone I am doing more heavy lifting, not just in the ways I expected. I’m discovering that the burdens are not light, nor particularly dark, that I may not lift them comfortably but my muscles are growing. It is only my need for...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I love you so much but there I go, swallowing the way I don’t like you sometimes. It feels disloyal to admit, but real loyalty comes by sharing truth, even these sharp edges that have felt dangerous and now cut through the bindings on my heart so it can...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I can no longer wear monogamy like a buffalo robe to protect me from shivers even though the heavy weight of warmth has kept me safe. It is not springtime but I need to take it off and be exposed to the elements that call me. The naked you from whom I...
by heather | Dec 4, 2012 | Poems
I have to say that this sucks. I do not like to be invisible to one I love who can’t see in my range of colours, as if I partly live in infrared or some delta state off his radar. This rainbow that I only partly see myself needs sun and water both, needs...
by heather | Nov 24, 2012 | Poems
I am being led by my navel, gazing at an invisible umbilicus connecting me to my world. I see all the life around me with the tenderness we offer to womb-mates, feel the pulsing of a deep mother unseen. I have been searching for the source closer...
