Author: Beth Maiden
2. without positive obsession there is nothing at all
6. Intelligence
25. Cast on new ground
28. changes
29. The rest of what we need
39. kindness eases change
57. self is
65. there is nothing alien about nature
66. earthseed is adulthood
bone stories
oh, i could tell it so many ways.
new year (2023)
i'm here. i have not moved yet. i am afraid to.
a head start
i breathed
with him barely
sipping the pale air
untitled
it is the day the spiders hatched.
my house will have no sign
you will not find it by name or number.
being with things
geese
the landing
branta came that night. paddled right up beside her in a tree-trunk canoe, offering a name.
the boat
on windy days the sea-wives would be busy with the boats, endlessly working ropes and sails. the woman learned to be useful.
on the calmer days they would rest.
the sea-wives
«mother doesn’t give a shit.»
the port
the woman brushed the wet sand from her dress. the pair walked on in silence
the fog
the woman walked south
along the high cliff path
the dance
one day the woman awoke
feeling strange.
dreams
the spider
the woman remembered
the swivel of shod hooves on the dusty road,
and running.
the woman
once there was a woman who lived alone
self-portrait with ghost
they hadn't spoken in 40 years.