i spread out all of my puzzle pieces turn them all picture side up and give each of them names: love.hope.want.grief.fear.luck before i cut off all of their edges shapely and jagged and place them on top of one another because i know i’ll never get them to fit to coexist in peace … Continue reading Picture side up
In my dreams I wake up early enough to watch the morning stars fade into blue. I wear lipstick and it never gets on my teeth. And in the distance chimney smoke whistles silently upwards before disappearing so as not to hurt Mother Nature nestled in her weary, aching bones. In my dreams, things are … Continue reading Morning stars
Last year began as the previous one ended - quite literally and in the sense I still had vast mountain ranges to climb. It’s a metaphor we use constantly but I couldn’t think of anything more apt; anything more deceptive than a mountain peak disappearing into the clouds. A few months into the year, I … Continue reading Age 25
STRESS IS AN OPEN DOOR "She is sat at the bus stop, arms crossed, when I reach her. Her eyes lift to mine as she hears my scattered breaths and clunky steps. I see in hers a hate and kindness I cannot untangle. Necklace chains of every emotion she must have felt in the last … Continue reading The Dee Diaries #5
I’ve realised how distant I’ve become from almost everyone, aside from the man who shares my bed. And I’m not too sure when it begun, this slow retraction of my hands and feet until I am floating midair with relief, wondering how many would be there beneath if I were to fall. So, I guess … Continue reading Nice to meet you
I held you in my arms, your skin pale and clammy beneath my hands, when I heard you gasp, say - i’m dying, with ever widening eyes, and the world turned pitch waiting to be lit, swirling as if a void, slipping off the edges, oily slick, until I woke in fright to find you … Continue reading In the dark
The worst kind of fear is the one which sits in your heart because it cannot push its way through the darkness between your ribs and into your throat. It cannot weave its way up your oesophagus to rest on the back of your tongue heavily waiting for the right time to speak. It sits … Continue reading Heartburn
I know it has taken me a while to do this but signed copies of Between the Trees are now available on Etsy. £12 with Free UK delivery Or $15.99 plus $2.66 for International Shipping. https://www.etsy.com/uk/listing/760618337/between-the-trees-poetry-and-prose Praise for Between the Trees: "I have always been a huge fan of English poets and Kristiana’s work is … Continue reading Signed copies: Between the Trees
The old me is no longer on the shelves because let’s be honest, she never existed. This is me now and this is me then; foolhardy and faerie, clumsy and pretty angry at the world and everyone in it, loved and unloved but always in love. I will bloom and I will wilt alongside the … Continue reading Discontinued
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