Here’s my poem:
Great basket islands
Skelleg to here west coasting
McKilleycuddy reegs The Burren County Clare Dawn chorus Ravens stay together for life and are all individuals Insects thrive from insecticides Clew Bay Connemara Co Kerry – cricket newt frog toad
Pert Babuki- the song of the faeriesHump back whales Dolphins Grey seals
Cessation of whaling Ireland is a safe haven
Maybe just maybe It’s watery it’s emotional deepening that allows a letting go falling down, falling away dropping downing into the intracellular memory foam beds that support the breakdown and move away gloriously ousting mouldy oldy paradigms that was all vertical and critical, outgoing hard cruel, separate defined
Feverish fighting pushing upwards bigger better look at me look at what I can do you see me
And so this young adult trembles in those experimentional platitudes on showy shows always in the know-how’s
Now depression lost unknown what am I who am I what do I do
Breaking into the middling years men-o-pausal- blood to soil to fertility to watery now the ending of into the widening familiarity that feels deeply isolated one step from the hand of time that pushes you under into the ocean and bedrocks rock bottom ravished and ravishing
Let go child woman crone let go
19 dear girl We will never let you down as you let go
You are held by Earth mother tenderly reclaiming interdependence indisputably
I had to get out of my way
My hormones driving me along every day every night up in out in out shag shag shag
Now I’m glad that games up and I m outside inside looking in gathering up my creativity urges to upwell in out through me
Rarer and rarer in the world now