Unnamed

Water makes the world chant

A steady whisper heard by billions

of twitching bodies

Resonators constantly receiving

the unfinished news of the living

 

Liquid norms undulate above and below

Even within us

We clatter and churn like water contained

Dash after dash after dash

No longer at home

On our home

 

Listen to the humming secret in your body

Beyond the unseen and insular

A mysterious and intimate knowledge waits

A language we were born with

Wordlessly it cycles through our existence

Evaporating off the dry husk of hardship

Returning in fresh downpour time and time again

Echoes and Edges

Echoes and Edges create sonic worlds inspired by poetry. I had the  opportunity to offer some of my words for them to improvise over. It was a pleasure to hear how the words animated and took on fresh expresssion as a result of their work.

You can listen to their latest response to one of my poems 'On these things and more' -  here

Chatter Speech Screams

Anthropocene we know you will not pause 

Gears grind gung-ho, macho ideas win 

for now, drowning rains we debate the cause 

We callous conquerors turn from dark skin 

Elemental fury has me shaking 

Land ice is sweating to kill in cold blood 

The seas surge god like, human hearts aching 

Flood after flood after flood after flood 

The angry planet holds some special good 

You can hear it at the mouth of a brook 

Each tree has a tongue speaking for the wood 

The loose jaw of nature an endless book 

We have to realign, do something and weep 

Change is here, we are all called to leap