The Making of Small

Ants, acorns, daisies, all the tiny things that we tend to overlook or take for granted, yet they make up the details of our beautiful world …

THE MAKING OF SMALL

I hold a pebble                      
in my hand

curve fingers
round smoothness

smell the salt
crusted on it

follow the line
of white in grey

like a wave
cresting the beach

know eons erased
the corners and crags

of how God made
this small beauty

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</ a>’A Bedroom of Searchlights’: poetry. This collection draws a picture of the poet’s divorced mother, an artist with two children, who struggled with poverty, war, and the realities of daily life, yet still found beauty and comfort in her garden, and her art.
From Inanna Publications, 2016.