To Know or Not to Know

When something matters, I often face the choice of discovering more or letting things be. Choosing not to know is usually the simpler path, takes less emotional and mental effort, and allows me to focus my attention on those things that I find more comfortable. With people, to know requires the mutual wish to know, and I only come to know beyond the safety of politeness through trust.

Friendship is a place where risk is shared. I am powerfully averse to danger, yet my impulse is to know.

A Time of Uncovering

I work on the written text that will accompany an artwork.

During the making of the image I remain aware of the broad ideas and feelings that led me to continue, however I try not to articulate, but rather trust my inner voice. An often hidden voice that lays at the very heart of me, and that informs my instinctive, involuntary, emotional response.

Now is my time to uncover, to analyse, to lay bare.

Why Poetry?

With words I think, I say, I reach, I seek to touch without the sight and sign of skin to skin,

With words I place idea and self within another's breath,

And if that breath bestowed we breathe, we hold that whispered wind of change as one,

For moment of that breath we share, a place this sheltered soul takes wing,

The better I become.