You can’t look directly at the Sun. You can try a surreptitious glance when the clouds come over. But, other than that, you can only look when he is low on the horizon; hidden apart from his spreading glimmer of fire. We worship the Sun… and yet – he does not allow us...
I have fractured time Taken it apart into a billion little pieces And scattered them into the winds. Where once I could chronicle the beginning the middle the end Now time is everywhere and nowhere. Now there will never be a ‘right time’ And we will...
An alternative way of thinking about intimacy that isn’t reliant on bumping genitals or swopping saliva… Two years ago my best friend and I learned a new form of intimacy. She had just been diagnosed with cancer; I lived in another country but made the...
Somewhere along the line I forgot. I forgot to trust myself. I looked to others: For advice Validation Direction. I asked the same questions over and over again: Who am I meant to be? Am I enough? Where am I going? But I never quite believed their answers. So I kept...
Today I am held together by safety pins. There’s the one carefully threaded through the side seam of my t-shirt where the overlocker cut too closely and the stitches are missing. I meant to sew it up but tossed the shirt in the wash and then wore it again having...