Tag: poetry

as i sat readingarticles and websites alldedicated to addressing crisesof climate, communityand conscience in their countless expressions, i heard an unaccustomed sound, as if someone were typing, fingerby finger, on the porch roof. my heart leapt as i realized it...

I don’t have long to writeso let me tell you that today’s smogis so thick that I’ve sat insidewith a headache, wearing a face-masknext to an air purifier, that the recorded figuresare double the hazardous limit, that these measurementsare probably a generous estimate, that I’m sittingwithin my...

A film poem The poem is a Cento, a traditional form in which a new poem is made by splicing together lines from published poems. It was created quickly, I didn’t give myself time to work out the meanings of the source poems, but skimmed through them and picked out the lines that...

The other morning I noticed a fish in my garden.I thought, what was a 3-foot-long dead fish doing among the bushes and trees?But he wasn’t dead.He was looking around. I am sure gills work only in water, but somehow he breathed.His silvery scales shone bluish and pinkish in the sun.He was...

I dipped my hair into the sea.When I pulled it outIt had grown by many yards and was curly. Hanging on to every waveWere crabs, starfish, brown kelp, yellow kelp,Jellies with stingers and without,And one open-eyed, open-mouthed scaly fish. The water from my hair dripped on the ground,...

Coming down the hill, saw in hand,I am dragging the limbs of the fallenAcross the bent wire, over the ditchAnd home.Rime gathers on the stones. I will kneel.A fire will rise where I strike the gauze.The world is mine, yet at its edgesSpreads a colour like Judgement.There is a drop of dark in the...

Look Ma, mermaids tears! He says, hands over-flowing with sea-foam, cobalt and honey-amber glass fragments