The time will come when your body
let’s you know healing is happening,
even if it’s not fully showing up
on the outside yet. There’s no freeze-drop belly knot. No cold in the veins …
self-love
Some Kind Of Holy (after Mary Oliver’s, ‘Wild Geese’)
You do not have to be good, Mary says. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves.
And what does this soft animal body love?
How to write a poem (after Cathy Colman’s ‘How to’)
the secret is to
the secret is to draw yourself a steaming hot bath
so hot it prickles your skin
add in the Epsom salts and the pink Himalayan …