Shiny
The last rays of the sun
polish that old lady’s
lips
Poem by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0, photo by Gideon on Flickr CC BY 2.0
Month: January 2017
Dandelion city
dandelion
popping the pavement—
gold star gone rogue
haiku rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0, photo Kleuske CC BY-SA 3.0
Evening rhododendron
Evening rhododendron
Swollen rhododendron:
fat white light-bulb
burning out
Poem by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Photo by Christoph Zurniedin CC BY 2.0
Singlets of the world
Singlets of the world
Dowdiest of nana-wear
your singlet clings to your lonely skin
your worried skin
you tuck it in
you barely feel it but you know it’s there for you
working full time for you
benign meniscus
keeping chills and death at bay
saving the hurts of the world for another day
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Almost
sunlight
on pohutukawa puddles—
almost home
photo & haiku by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Artist
when you loved me
you painted me —
weed-flower in bright glass
poem and photo by rachel mcalpine CC BY 2.0
Fashion sculptor
Fashion sculptor
Bodies are your block of stone
you insert a corset
sucking and squeezing
excess to a better place
Sir surgeon sir
excuse me
oozing very small
very soft
very deep within my dress
very thin
very flesh
I mean your dress
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Time travel
So still, so silent
my summer city—
I must be somewhere else
~ rachel mcalpine
Meticulous
meticulous
my ice cream moustache
you lick it off
poem + photo rachel mcalpine CC-BY 2.0
Mauve
Mauve
This rain repairs an old walk
with a blue bike, a pink worm,
seed hairs limp and mauve
and a pine stump gnawing
at our silky air
Poem and photo by Rachel McAlpine CC BY-NC 2.0
Poems in the wild—Rachel McAlpine 