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The Mother Wound - 23/04/24

A Poem by Dom

O Child who makes me mortal: patting his round, raspberry-stained tummy with clumsy, two-and-a-half-year-old hands, smearing a bright red scar ..

Hazel - 19/04/24

A Poem by Dom

Gifts of citrine to my father,left in hopes he’ll be happy -not rock he needed,but tree.Not yellow, orange, brown,but bursting, verdant green.Br..

Brook - 22/02/24

A Poem by Dom

reflections on early motherhood

soft red cheek - 31/03/23

A Poem by Dom

a quick simple little poem from bed at 3:23am

Tangentially Related To Beth - 30/07/22

A Poem by Dom

I’m back in town. She’s not around - clawed her way out. My 3rd or 4th time on this merry-go-round; tourist-trodden, prime for retirem..

Août 9th - 24/03/22

A Poem by Dom

OI didn't knowMorphineWould taste sweetI felt happyFor the first timeComparing the pads of my mother's thumbsTo the soles of my son's feetI understand..

hush II - 14/04/21

A Poem by Dom

I want to kiss your tissue paper lids - feel your lashes brush my lips with the flinch of it - then draw back and let you look with your unrelentin..

hush - 11/04/21

A Poem by Dom

Something sweet, a cherry tree, bears fruit for me again. Please say you love me, say you’d touch me, keep me carefully - canals keep c..

Seed - 04/03/21

A Poem by Dom

I wanted this. I want it still. Little lollipop, sucked in sweetness, embittered by my own cloying hysteria. With resentment wrapping the fat of ..

Germany - 19/08/20

A Poem by Dom

I have no hide;raw and childlike;an infant with no skin onSavlon body, smearedthrough blood and sinew,antisepticonly tears and re-tears the tissueWeir..