• But

    the leaves        unrequited love the bark        unrequited love dappled sunlight        unrequited love sweet fruit        unrequited sweet air        love breath of birdsong        only love mint moonlight        one true love night forest        one true love furred flicker        one true love ferned place rain mist silence silence full of… Read more

  • Between

    The feet of the cities are in your mouth, the eyes of two cities        one new, one old the mud of two rivers, the earth of two lands,        the brownstone, the lodestone. The tongues of the cities are in your feet, the aches of two cities,        ache of place, ache of time,… Read more

  • Sling

    The baby, softly breathing on my chest offers me his fuzzy scalp to kiss. His warmth is on my belly his lips against my breast. He’s ready to embrace. Strapped on firmly as I work and walk and rest my baby, softly sleeping, fills my abyss. He’s heavy on my body but easy on my… Read more

  • Callan is born

    Callan has dimpled hands chubby arms and legs fluffy brown hair Daddy’s eyes and Daddy’s strong neck. Five days ago … Opening myself for him to be born was one of the hardest things I have done and yet … it was easy … no it wasn’t! It was like acid and like a knife… Read more

  • Mother to baby

    I am your muscle and you are my eye; I am your earth and you are my sky. You are my path and you are my power; amid all the huffle you are my hour. I am your centre, stalk for your flower; I am your block, base of your tower. You are my luck… Read more

  • I am a whale and she is my calf Swimming beside me as I navigate the seas. And look at the size of my calf! Mouth at my breast, feet on my thighs, knees in my belly. Be still, calf! Read more