Fidelity

Creative spark
I see in you
Dreaming
Waking me

Latent seed
I wait for you
Expectantly
Resurrect me

Winter Sun
I long for you
Ritually
Nourish me

Sanguine one
I dine with you
Replenishing
Anchor me

Blossoming love
I ride with you
Untethering
Embolden me

Sacred space
I live with you
Opening
Swallow me

Whole

Coal River Valley

Words Heal

'Big Minds
Big Things
Creative anxiety
Poets folk
Artistic authors
Scientists

Simply studying
Big Creatives
Philosopher
Nervous
Breakdown

'Small ray of light?
French historians
Reading Wordsworth
Attuned emotions
Lifted anxiety

Insomniac
Out of sync
Creativity flourished
What rich ideas
Work of a sleeper?

Emily Dickenson
Phobias
Housebound
Undistracted
Time to write

Ditto Charles Darwin
For decades

Sigh, smile and say
Be that as it may
Allow intensity to overflow...'

- word maze from 'First We Make the Beast Beautiful' by Sarah Wilson, (2017), 166-167.

A veritable flood is opening the gates.

Fragility

Tight fisted furl
Crushed within itself
Fragile fingers bent in
Parting ways within

Dewy kiss of dawn
Wakened and reborn
Sinews of new life
Spring spine tingling knife

Iridescent form
Stand erect and yawn
A fertility carved charm held high
It breathes a spore sigh of indignity

Avoid taste or touch
Fragile Fronds koru (Māori)