I held your hand to help you with your first stepNow you run without looking back
for thirty yearsyour presencewas definedby your absence;now, you inveigle yourselfinto my daily life,expecting connection;and I can only…
in the vast emptinessof a child’s mind,voices, tones,half-heard,half-understood,echo,permeatingfoundationbeforethe words they…
the children of nowfinding their place mask-faced before mebrave in my…
a step into the suna step back into the shade,each brush of sunpaints temporary colours;this simple chemistryenthralls her…
As pain trenched, splittingme down the middle,my little girl tossed me