In exchange for scrambled eggs
I gave you
my bonsai.

This sweet milk tea
in Georgetown
contains all my joy.

Clouds blow the sun away.
More coffee.

Healing leaves are now disrobed branches
on the edge of this wilderness.
Many tall Douglas Fir stand sentinel
over 100 foot tall amazing grace — the fleeting leaves
expose the beauty of the moss clad scaffolds
adorned with a lime-grey lichen lace
Nature is my refuge — solid ground to stand
in this harmony and peacefulness.


Jesse Stillwater — December 2018

You pierced and devoured me like a delicacy
Silly boy didn't realise you can't digest a soul
I'll be coming back up
And it's inevitable that you're going to get sick

The moon shouts
The great oak stands tall
The tides roll

to wonder is simple and human and fine;
but it is to relinquish control that’s divine.