Journey of Words

Tag: Separation

  • Dream #24

    you must know this one where you reach out as far as you can then not reaching what you stretched for start to fall towards a ground so distant you cannot see it you cannot fly resistance is useless you tumble through parting air and you rediscover fear as the ground approaches so fast, so →

  • Ring Me

    I begged, looking at the mark on the third finger of my left hand where there’s still an indented mark that never tans quite so dark as the rest of me not since I took off that gold band threw it in a drawer three years ago, or was it four? ~ CLP 21/06/2021 →

  • Dream #22

    Which bed is this? I wake unsure no standard hotel shape to reassure my musty head is somewhere secure familiar start to a new day with an unfamiliar face who has just pulled close the door behind her I hold a memory of shapes and words recalled too late that was not her name she →

  • Dream #20

    you know, this thing that didn’t happen anywhere but my head, seemed real I remember everything about it conversation, colours, the amazing food all the personal touches every sensation, but smell smell? nothing. I thought nothing of it until I was asked to leave as I said, it seemed real but without a scent of →

  • Dream #19

    flying with brothers and sisters screams of joy uncontrollable giggles screaming with brothers and sisters pained by absence collapsed in holes of grief uncontrollable brothers and sisters scoured by loss wandering like orphaned kittens absence of brothers and sisters ~ CLP 15/06/2021 →

  • Dream #13

    your careful choice of words so free and easily phrased sparks spectacular reactions at the back of my mind guarantee confusion of sleep with memory in reality you exist only in nightmares in truth I fear you no longer ~ n.b. Echoes of past lives carried in words. History / Herstory. ~ CLP 06/06/2021 →

  • Dream #11

    Early morning yawning toasty warm honey for breakfast gold finches chitter a black cat stretched across daisies swipes at a curious bee your gentle purring snore of second sleep me thinking we are happy ~ CLP 05/06/2021 →

  • On Water xxxii

    excess to absence situation stays fluid adapt and survive ~ CLP 08/05/2021 →

  • On Dreams vi

    I dream of dawn when I wake from sleep prepare tea for two ~ CLP 10/05/2021 →

  • On Water xxiii

    absence of presence bottle; long-term substitute happiness of toes ~ CLP 01/05/2021 →