by heather | Nov 11, 2014 | Poems
He said it so sweetly, rugged and innocent, and I was so moved I almost missed the message, caught by the realness of his voice, air moving through his heart and lips to my vibrating ears. Almost missed it coming from her embrace, the stranger I had feared, until I...
by heather | Nov 11, 2014 | Poems
I understand how joy smells like rain, how fermented flowers rot into perfume, how laughter is most rich when there are tears but today even joy feels out of reach, a bar raised too high, a shelf beyond my outstretched arms. Today the threads entwine...
by heather | Nov 3, 2014 | Poems
I feel a truth rolling, a snake in my belly learning to fly with no escape, finding expanse inside this bag of skin. So long I tried to calm its wriggle or seek a different heaven to soar in, trying to tame my own creation. Now I cry the finite tears of a limited sky,...
by heather | Nov 3, 2014 | Poems
This succulence is surely too easy, hence the strong walls keeping the secret at bay so someone will keep working fields of someones with pinched faces efforting while grapes dry into raisins and sweetness condenses silk and mounds of light shaped in morphing...
by heather | Oct 12, 2014 | Poems
When I sit here and pat the universe in my belly and catch myself wanting to be the queen bee I pay homage to all the other worker bees like me, the wisdom-tenders in their many seats, galaxies of wonder unnoticed and connected. This couch...
