When amnesia pillages your home, fronts your back door, when it thieves your salmonberries, makes plans to extirpate your songs and ceremonies, when it… Read more Shkitagen
Tag: Poetry
Faces #2
To my friend who still washes dishes in a two part system. Somewhere behind the giant macadamia of your foreheadyou… Read more Faces #2
Faces #1
Almost any time I go anywhereI expect to see a familiar face. I’m browsing for recognitionin the cereal section of the… Read more Faces #1
Decisions #2
I left you in terminal three unremarkably. You had two hours before your flight, still had to print your boarding pass.You… Read more Decisions #2
Decisions #1
22/02/20 We are lucky and a little lost. I live in your old bedroom in your parents’ house, with a… Read more Decisions #1
Trees #2
You water the trees with your grief. Side by side in the living room, their soil carpeted with smooth stones painted… Read more Trees #2
Trees #1
I don’t notice the trees on 47th Street.En route from the bus stop, I seea garbage bag tangled in some… Read more Trees #1
Nervous chatter, 30.03.20
Reflections, 29.10.17
I lived in a stone house, half-dipped in yellow painted concrete,10 Mulberry Court, Edenville, Kiambu County, Nairobi, Kenya, Africa, Eastern… Read more Reflections, 29.10.17
Tangency
I sit under the wide sky this morning,a dome of dim flame and early blue,watching silhouettes of coffee plantsblacken… Read more Tangency