Author Archives: Pearl

can’t see for the clouds my mind can find the moon season, hour, face known One Deep Breath challenge.

We harlequin-dream to be plastered with cherry petals, lips holi-dusted in crocus pistils. We plead of sky and each other: make us sweat, bait us to unswaddle without the suffering of late frost. April showers thaw the shoulders, showing skin is months away, other side of spasms of lumbar, shoots of brave green, shiver of […]

We are creatures of action and reaction. We have little choice but to react to our constraints even if we don’t know what they are consciously. It’s like responding to tone or body language. There’s an intuitive response. We learn to use what we have to work with. If conversationally we know we may be […]

This journal is languishing with my only putting up the subset of poems that I wrote which are not dreck, which may be of interest to others and yet cannot be sent to market immediately. Therefore I’m going to pad. ahem, that is expand my mandate. The thought is I will include what poetry I’m […]

transience the season of tangerine loose skin unacidic sweet flesh falling to nectar on the tongue has passed but coming is the apricot, the mango after this gap and the next