One Particularly Depressing Day...

I think this is the only longer poem I've written about my journey through leukaemia; the rest are haiku, tanka, senryu, and I now have some haibun coming through. This free-verse poem was written in early 2011 and edited for submission early this year. It was then accepted and published in Takahe 75 (Issue 1, 2012).

That day

By Kirsten Cliff

I stopped

lay still

& watched my world move

around me:

the hands of a clock

the branches of a tree

the mothers pushing prams

the kids riding bikes

the cars & birds

flying by

As I watched

my heart altered

for I saw no sign

of God.

I love this cover!