A White Feather
A white feather fell slowly down, as light as a tear. it brushed up against the window and for a second was held there by an invisible thermal, a tiny hand that rocked it back and forth, speaking of miracles: invisible air resisting, the illusion of gravity that shocks every child, then questions about the bird it fell from, carbon atoms boiled up and spewed out in an ancient supernova long before there were birds or human observers, the trick of flight we have all envied, asking what happens to all the feathers in the world? Then it continued to fall down softly, so very softly, like we all fall - at different rates but we all fall. I Feel, Jazz Second lockdown looming. A cocktail of anxiety and wine swirling in my soul. No one knows. The future is just scat. I turn to jazz again. Miles, you’re there for me mimicking the universe with the chaos that can coalesce into occasional meaning and melody Then leap apart again. When I listen to you, I am altered, reassured, at peace. I dance around the empty apartment, spilling myself in arms and heart, accepting what chaos creates. The Candle Start with the flame, that beautiful sparkof entropy proving itself, compounds combusting, changing solid wax to molten rivers that mourn, cool and harden, heaping new forms on old, re-creating but reducing, all the while less and less, structured energy to heat loss. As your candle burns up, taking years, if you are lucky enough to deny the 2nd Law, the lengthening yellow hand waves shadows on a white wall, while shadows that grow confident as the night darkens, and then dim. All that fading, dissembling can be cheated a while, the brief breathe of a poem. Published in February 2021 in Borderless. Journal.
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Crow born in the Douglas fir,
croaking, voice like cracking bark, a black hole happening in moments the tree cannot measure, its ringed heart beats in decades. Now flying between bare trees, a black photon appearing when observed, voice like creaking time, disappearing back into potential. Published February 2021 in The Ear., #24 |
Poetry Biography:I have had over 70 poems published in the following worldwide magazines and literary journals: A Handful of Stones, Acta Victoriana (Canada), All the Sins (UK), The Amethyst Review (USA), Amsterdam Quarterly (NL) The Blue Nib (Ireland), Bolts of Silk, Borderless Journal, The Brasilia Review (Brazil), Bushfire Literature & Arts Review (US), Cadenza, Cake Magazine, Carillon, Cha: An Asian Literary Journal (Hong Kong), DASH (USA), Clackamas Literary Review (USA), Cooch Behar Anthology, Dawntreader, Dreamcatcher, The Dillydoun Review, Earth Love, The Ear (US), Eastlit (East Asia), Erbacce, Envoi, Finger Dance Festival, Ginosko, Gloom Cupboard, Hidden Channel, Inlandia Journal, IS&T (Ink, Sweat & Tears), Into the Void (Canada), The Journal, The Lakeview Journal (India), Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Lunch Ticket (USA) The New Writer, One Hand Clapping, Orbis, Oregon English Journal (USA), The Passage Between, Prole, Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Sonic Boom (India), Third Wednesday (USA), Of Nepalese Clay (Nepal), New Contrast (South Africa), One Hand Clapping, Opportunity Publishing, The Oregon English Journal (USA) Origami Poems Project (USA), The Paddock Review (USA), Panoplyzine (USA), Paper Swan Press, The Passage Between, The Peacock Journal (USA), Pens on Fire, Poetry Salzburg (Austria), Potomac Review, (USA) Prole, Pulsar Poetry, Rear View Poetry, Queen Mob's Teahouse, Qutub Minar Review (India), Red Ink, Shiela-Na-Gig (USA), South Bank Poetry Magazine, Stand, Waterford Teachers Centre, (Ireland) We Are a Website New Literary Journal (Singapore), Weber - The Contemporary West Review (USA), Windfall (USA), Writing Magazine, Words for the Wild and Verbal Art (India). Archives
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