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Author Archives: Paige Stewart
one white wall
The bees are buzzing telling me spring’s flowers have come alive But you aren’t. We disagreed about white walls…now I concede. It makes everything else the source. so now the teal pot, and there the red bread canister Holds a welling feeling of aliveness, of a certainty of existence. the white wall We traded places … Continue reading
always
sometimes at dusk the suns gentle light cuts through the tender heart I harbor and the loss of you flutters before me as a gossamer moth… luminous tissue too delicate to last in this world And I was an owl in the day to your truth that bounce in your step a thin veneer and … Continue reading
a puzzle
I visited you once in summer’s press all fabric stuck or sticking my humid mind fog or forgettin’ a puzzle of squirrels and a hidden nut you’d said was but lost the trees spoke in the wind was only one place where green life did not go near the ponds edge and the catwillows … Continue reading
all that remained
I wanted to teach the world to you so i bought you a globe it was not that old some of the borders had since moved and the names of the places inside those lines had changed too and i wondered if anyone made a globe without lines or names for things which no one … Continue reading
and life began
We talked of watching rain fall but we did not know of it nor feel how old it truly is ferried here and there through time it has been on us and in us it has been us These tiny drops, this fierce flow rain is made of me and you. Without we are a … Continue reading
Heart Wind
There was a brief moment of turning away from the heart wind But a turn is the beginning of a revolution and the earth revolves making the sun go Up and down Up and down And a birds wings go Up and down And up and down And so my heart goes up and down … Continue reading
