whispered on the moor a dream came to me recently it broke through the morning past sunrise and into my waking thoughts in this dream I walk the rocky shoreline of a rust-coloured beach finding coins along the way over and over I place these treasures into my palms pounds, shillings and pence the furtherContinue reading “whispered on the moor”
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Steadfast
Steadfast Remember the back of your grandmother’s hands, her life, a wrinkle of lines your mother’s mother burst forth from stars through radio waves, rockets, and rebellion to meet you In her time, bombs created constellations then fell in formation around her heart Decades of war cast shadows on her bones but from them she forgedContinue reading “Steadfast”