Risk being unliked. Tell the truth as you understand it.
If you’re a writer you have a moral obligation to do this.
And it is a revolutionary act—truth is always subversive.”
Anne Lamott
A selection of poems
The Moment in Which I Love Her
The pale horse leans across the fence
and breathes her in, trusts muzzle to gentle hands.
She says, you are beautiful, you are so beautiful…
What You Carry
You can take what you can
carry on your back.
I wasn’t there, but he heard the cop say
You can take what you can carry…
One As You Are One—A Meditation
- the intersection of two jet streams, and the dissipation—a phantom Maltese cross
- ecstatic humpback utterances with the dead drone of transcontinental ships…
Migrations
Remember the time we were in Portland, rain
pissing down and me mad as hell over some silly thing
I can’t remember anymore. Kids in the back seat…
“Lesley-Anne Evans writes like our best imagination…one step ahead of the mundane, the miraculous.“
Gareth Higgins, author of how not to be afraid
Lesley-Anne Evans 