Pictures are memories:The passage creaking with your footsteps,Rosaries trickling down your papery thin fingers,Your papery hands dissolving over oily food,The passage creaking with your footsteps.Garlic over everything you made!Your papery hands dissolving over oily food,Your drawer in the secret room, secret boxes…Garlic over everything you made!Your exit, a knife to my heart, my soul.Your drawer… Continue reading Mrs Matilda Kalil
Category: Creative Writing: Breathing Space
Inside Out
A story to disguise the truth On the outside I love you, on the inside, I don’tWild imaginings of my secret heartLooking into the distance bewilderedFar faraway at the simple vision of starsThe sound of no soundThere, the organic space where artful stumbling occursAnd landing sure-footed in just the right placeUndaunted and tenaciousThe lens of… Continue reading Inside Out
Know Thyself
On the edge of my soaring spirit,I look down to a field.Over there, I am a mother with four sons.Over there, I am a son to an Indian tribesman. Over there, I am a murderer in a cold cell.Over there, I am an old woman, crystals in my hands. I slip down the slope towards… Continue reading Know Thyself