For Songstress, my most beautiful little one My dear, when you and I were young We would play the most outlandish games // Like one day I would be a doctor Like one day you would go on adventures Like one day I might have a hobbit house Like one day you might be a…

For Batman, who is in Oregon fighting not just the fires but the local flora as well. Poison oak and burning flames Scalding skin and lungs The smoke is choking you If I could breathe fresh flower-swept air From the clear Olympic mountains to you I would send every gust and volley On the wind…

For Sassy, you know why The thing about lockdowns is that they seem to go on And on and on There’s never a moment where you think Oh this went quickly Oh this isn’t stressful It’s more like a ticking time bomb Where you are waiting for your own mind to implode From the sheer…

I believe in you I believe in me I believe in the goodness and light That is all of us // I believe in him I believe in her I believe in the rightness and strength That is all of us // I believe in them I believe in xhe I believe in the beauty…

Sweet cream and lovely deep delicious sin Stone on stone back-breaking blood making And it flitters through our fingers old gold Cadbury and werther or not we try to fight it Chocolate draws us in her seduction is violent // Gooey warmth the grows from within Remembering the guilt and the pain of others Sent…

Green growing things in the star-filled night The sound of birds and torches burning bright The rush and brush of long grass on bare thighs A long black braid swings in the breeze side to side A gloved hand wipes her brow and flicks sweat away The wind blows long and rubber tree leaves sway…

Love and happiness are my favourite themes I can’t help but keep writing in reams Of recycled and rehashed emotions But isn’t that the best thing about life? That the best things are repeatable And predictable And safe I am floored by the everyday kindness Of everyone who crosses my path Thank you for being…