by Psalm Pollock | Nov 7, 2020 | Poetry
It’s hard not to look at our world… with the seething division between us, the corrupt leadership in offices across the planet… and not notice that it’s all engineered. We are a united people, deep down. No matter what color you are, a child...
by Psalm Pollock | Jul 11, 2019 | Poetry
I do not want to be intoxicated by love. I do not wish to dive drunkenly into the waves of consuming passion. And perhaps I am too sober for you. Perhaps my hands, and my body, are resting silence. Perhaps when you come running, you will see me only breathing, or...
by Psalm Pollock | Aug 18, 2017 | Poetry
I wondered about my voice: Where it lived, if it was mine. While the pale blue oyster at my throat made pearls that gagged me in my sleep. Until I woke spitting, feeling the stones in my belly. Always unsettled, the nausea of digesting my own gifts like a snake eating...
by Psalm Pollock | Mar 11, 2016 | Poetry
When in the quiet, and the paper thin light of early, My body wakes, my skin warm, the entirety of me ready For a life inhabited by a heart, a perfect open poetry, No longer can anything be stronger than this pure & spoken reality. Breathe deep, long, sweet, live...
by Psalm Pollock | May 20, 2015 | Poetry
You have no idea how much your body wants to drink the earth Wants to bury its toes in loam and dirt Wants to lay its head against pillowy leaves And soak in the sun through a canopy of trees. You have no idea how you long to remember Your limbs descend from roots and...
by Psalm Pollock | Apr 23, 2015 | Poetry
I was 12 years old when my mother took her life Took her life, gave her life, I’ve never understood the difference. Hours earlier she was asking me to sing while her inner angel listened She kissed my skin and told me things I’d forgotten but was missing....
