Consumption, creative writing, Poetry, Politics, Social change

Economics Lesson

They taught me in Economics that money was infinite So why do hands curse and bodies curl, in boxes overhanging the highway. If money was infinite it would find them, would it not? It would flow downstream, flushing the  land with riches - fish, fowl, flowers, fancy  Did it get stuck along the way? Did… Continue reading Economics Lesson

change, creative writing, Poetry, Politics, Social change

Eviction Notice

Eviction notice Once we were neighbours.  We built homes of clay, and oak. One night while I was sleeping,  you came, and took the Brick  that I had laid  close to the back door,  the one I never noticed. The next day you sold it back to me  and found you could buy two in… Continue reading Eviction Notice

change, creative writing, Mind Body Spirit, Poetry, Social change, Spirituality

What I have learned from this life, and yet

  I was reading a tweet about body image yesterday, how we should be proud of the body we have regardless of our shape (which I agree with, and liked) when at the same time I was sitting in the garden, holding in my round tummy, and sighing about the size of my upper arms.… Continue reading What I have learned from this life, and yet