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Escaping echoes.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

The ground drives in. I look to it now, Placing my steps, printing them As stakes of balance, wood On my arms, my tentacled mourning. ..

The woman who ran from her memory.

A Story by rebeccarellis

Jenny 17/07/88 Very close to the house where I live there is a long, winding road. I could not tell you what it is called, although my bike ..

Our summer nights.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

Burned pink by the cold night wind We are blinking in your kitchen Which is yellow and brimming with things. The warmth is silk over my ski..

A sky of one's own.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

I am a winter flower Whose petals are pricked. Alive to the stem In frozen isolation, The vigour of foamy white sap Is my only route to feelin..

Bodies.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

My bread was flung To fattened ducks Who did not care For home-baked love With its open grains And lumpen inelegance: ’twas Rust to ..

To my mother.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

You wrap us all in love and towelsWhich go on whispering warmthEven when lights are outAnd beds are empty.You tune in smooth;A perfect swoopTo any hum..

The swing.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

He's part of the swing From the time I lay there With his lovely lover And he watched, Took a picture. Then again, years later When..

The wall and I.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

I find my eye in the dark, Enlarged on the opposite wall, And we are mirrors fighting Like sails that billow, their cabins A stomach of ..

Acidic love

A Poem by rebeccarellis

My hate's too soft and stickyTo last in the iron of certainty;Willed in by bodies foreignTo our sweet loveWhich was unrepentantIn its time of decadant..

Bottles at sea.

A Poem by rebeccarellis

I poured my agonies into bottlesAnd sent them overseasIn streamsTo him, praying for safe passageAnd safe return.Caught along with the silver swarmingT..