Rewilding

For Siblings Day

A gold coin slipped to each of us ©Stella Body, 2021 Those for whom light is blood … -quote from Tim Bowling Today, as I step into the morning kitchen, my arms leave me to lift and stretch outward – my own body surprising, involuntary, sibling-stemmed as a young plant. Single andContinue reading “For Siblings Day”

Alone under the Moon

Alone under the Moon ©Stella Body 2020 Lover of loneliness and wandering, of upcast eye and tender pondering… – Keats A day twice-wintered, by season and by long lock-down… All my antidotes – the brief fureants I dance from kitchen to front hall to set my blood coursing, the huge desk, fashioned to the shapeContinue reading “Alone under the Moon”

Wind over Water

Wind Over Water ©S.Body 2020 When I arrive, the northern lake is still. A plate of glass. A playing card, twin mountains reversed into each other, illuminated from above and below. In the distance, a shimmer of evening traffic, too faint to remind me of what I’ve left behind. A pandemic, a lost job, a placeContinue reading “Wind over Water”

Element of Still

Element of Still ©Stella Body 2020 African Journal: All afternoon, a small green frog sits near me at the far southern edge of a diminishing ‘mkondo’ (Swahili word for creek). Today, the water flows so slowly, it has begun to go backwards. Still he doesn’t move. His skin is smooth, live green freckled with amber. Continue reading “Element of Still”

Return me, oh sun, to my wild destiny…the solitary peace…the wind alive like a heart… I want to go back to being what I haven’t been. -Pablo Neruda Rewilding (Part 1 of a Series) ©Stella Body 2020 As I grow older, I can’t stop asking this question: Who can show me how live with a lightContinue reading “Rewilding”

Element of Father

Element of Father ©Stella Body 2020 Climber of peaks, you I saw first on the steep East coast of Africa, hurling your slender dark, a javelin into the turbid waves, a chaos you craved. I was not yet three, but a faint motherly care-song pressed from my lips, a murmur for the rosebud tenderness of yourContinue reading “Element of Father”