Author Archives: Leigh-Anne Fraser

Day 20 I wake up to raindrops on my eyelidsbirdsong floats on morning airrivers fill to overflowingtrees breathe into blossomsI wait andlisten~ #napowrimo2019 #poetry

Day 19 eight spoons measure my dayat one time I had more ten or eleventwenty when I was youngerbut today eight spoonssit in my coffee mugsometimes filled with sugarwhatever sweetness I need to curb the harsh bitter nowwhen the world becomestoo muchafter months and months of pushing throughin spite of everything elsein spite knowing itContinue reading “eight spoons”

Day 18 I sit in the pause between this breath and the nextuntetheredin the darknessfloating in the lightdrowningin the deepwords sticklike chewed glassin my throatI am lostin thisjust beingherein the silence~ #napowrimo2019#poetry

Day 17 I write to you in deep night While rain falls I wait for sleep to steal me But I have been awake for years I hear more clearly in darkness Sitting with the sky Listening Later a storm will rattle the window Thunder will shake the building Before passing Morning will come dressedContinue reading “I write to you in deep night”

Day 16 to set it right on the balance ice to the jaw after the punch hidden bruises no voice left in the shadows I tried to use it more than once my voice as quiet as it is is loud inside you fail you are not enough you will never be and yes IContinue reading “To set it right”

Day 15 looking backwards in the bathroom mirror trying to see the part of me I cannot see a photograph blurred three bulbs gone leaving just enough for hair brushing and nothing more night has wrapped itself around the building the last light of the sun long gone no one awake that I can askContinue reading “Looking backwards”

Day14 I am aware of this journey of skinits curves and rollsin right places in wronghow other eyes defineddiscouraged filled cups of distainto sustain methrough the years I am aware of this journey of skin of not being enough to satisfy or qualify lovehow that borecraters within methat no amount of tearscould fill I amContinue reading “I am aware”

Day 13 I didn’t ask you for proof of life no song no heartbeat no smile no touch nothing I asked for nothing and in that moment you gave it to me a cup of dust the wind caught it at the end I held an empty cup never to fill again I didn’t askContinue reading “I didn’t ask you”

Day 12 I sit on the shore a stone among stones shaped by the water coming and going the sun sets and rises the moon rises and sets the horizon a thread between them ~ #poetry #napowrimo2019

Day 11 time held its breath today and I was lost in between somewhere beyond the ragged edge of being not watching barely still in my skin while I struggled to find the surface the universe became bigger a photograph formed to show an ancient past outside of what was known only moments before asContinue reading “Time held its breath today”

Day 10 a little strength the expense of truth empty the well some other way a thousand petty hardships helps someone else’s pain so do something worthwhile play for all the wrong reasons move on live no one else can prepare you dream without forgetting lean towards sunlight #poetry #napowrimo2019

Day 9 making space for myself carving it out of the stone walls I build around myself out of protection out of love water wearing tears on granite on rose quartz on sand curled along layers woven into the skin making space for my soul it has grown beyond the house travelling like summer onContinue reading “making space”