X Ray

A rib cage roped with a sensory illusion nerve coil
Ripped open, scoured clean
Exposed, helpless
Proving nothing

Today

No one can hold my heart
tired, darkened beating from yesterday
but my love can be crushed between these two magnets
leaving no space for a vacuum of thought

Departure

I still breathe
as if I am walking around your rooms
like a person you sync my breathing with yours
far away now at the rise of a mountain
a house becomes a home becomes a heart

Paths

The wood beneath my feet betrays me
I have followed the wrong forest path
I am looking for a dose of every day
I am looking for a dried up seahorse
collected on the beach by the old sea house
fallen from the trellis where I had my shell collection
I have strayed too far from the course of yesterday
from the bay with the fynbos
to the inland autumn leave table clothed forest

Unwrapped

I was seven
small, stunned and shy
when the school took a day trip to the zoo

I sat on the bench with my lunch
I forgot
we were supposed to bring plastic bag lunches
that day
I watched the other girls happily throw away their packets
cheeks burning, I wasn't hungry
I threw my lunchbox away quickly, my sandwich still wrapped in wax paper
no one noticed.

Diamond

The morning sun
Blinks for a moment behind the trees
The late night stars
Clear cut, more precious
In this cold clean air

The Resolution

The shadows grow long
It finally feels right to forget her
The defense,  available to a fault
Has moved like a fetus
Into my dominion
Shoulders don't have to hang
A good mind can rest
And see a line breaking, like a well worn burnt out branch
Reaching the ground
Finally resting on the ground