poetry

  • UNEARTHED

    I buried my grief  In the back yard  Next to the fig tree  But someone kept digging it up I didn’t know who  But in the strangest times It would surface  Again  And again Until I realised  The shovel was in my hand  The human side of me  Craving the loss  I’d tried to hide …

  • Apple of my Eye

    The air is thick with the sound of cicadas, Thick enough to drown out the cries. Hazy dusk light seeps through the window. I look to the apple tree outside, Its branches drooping, weighed down by its fruit. It’s there that I see myself, A branch weighed down by my offering to the world, My…