We have learned to feed on lightning,click by clickour old animal minds startled into anger,rewardedfor the fastest heartbeatthe quickest fistthe loudest shriek. Deep within us,we crave simplicity,the lichen-covered branch of certainty.All the whileour glowing screenskeep whisperingthat every shadow is a threat,every stranger a flash of teeth.How easily we can be boughtand taught to fear. Maybe…
Category: Poetry
Little Fishes
empathy lies in tatters like blood-soaked rucksacks in a dusty crater struck dumb of youthful chatter Bombs for the children profits for the pot one hundred and fifty three tiny flames extinguished Truth traded like futures justifications bought cast into the oil-soaked dark and find the seed-bed, prepared where rage and revenge find root amongst…
The Frog and the Pond
Introduction: The Sioux nation, one of the indigenous peoples from what is now known as North America, have many proverbs, and many of them reflect on how balance is struck in nature – they do not see themselves as apart from nature but a part of nature. This particular proverb struck me deeply and I…