(untitled as of yet) all of god’s plans sprung to life here in PEI as an egg tempura painting the bell dome of blue lacquer touching the red rim of sand/sea I become as a pollen grain on a carpet of white potato blossoms up to the rolling coast temptation to lie make snow angels […]
Author Archives: Pearl
Shall we shortly
(a bit of silliness really) Shall we shortly traipse mad in a zigzag smear? Squint, there’s the shape of me – can we make out in the shadowy shallows this riparian ripe life smelling of the mire ferns wriggle out of? Spy me. Everyone else does, doze among those weeping willow shadows half shore, half […]
heaven helps those who won't help themselves?
I know it is too late for both chocolate and sleep so just a little piece hope for the angels that protect fools who make their own bad luck
entering a Moment
entering a Moment words seem to gather the sense that they like children are no longer central to this conversation. They slip away to peer around corners at our making straight-backed make believe subjects, civility, sensible, ostensibly, sensibilllblillbly, pardonable giggled, gardenable, wha – what was I saying, the swung bar codes of my eyelashes, flashes […]
walking until shoes squish
they fall together, rain and night both warm as mother’s kisses on crown protective, solid, grounded and safe people give themelves over to rain those that fear have already scurried their hard shells of umbrellas clamped swifter and harder than night, rain both amplified by the contrast of headlights. both change the pace of footsteps […]