Iona Winter

Category: love

  • rouse

    salted brine-stained lips linger on a closed mouth smile master of the ardent kiss with your heart painted shut   you rouse a tidal yearning to be stretched between us   bring me your desire beloved rest on my shoulder where all is quiet once the wind has dropped  …

  • fallen tree

    fallen tree I smelled you today like loamy soil and spinach greens fallen tree I heard you like water on scorched earth sighing fallen tree I felt your pruned limbs ache from loss of attachment fallen tree I know you wait for her over beyond the veil fallen tree

  • Stagger

    Sand ridges in perfect formation like frozen waves caress the beach.   I walk the track a drunkard’s stagger timed with the ocean.   ‘You have to pass by the door of death in order to be reborn’ you whispered.   Ageless kelp beds cushion my fall into the sea green like…

  • I had a friend like that…

    I had a friend like that…

    I had a friend like that once too.   He spoke to me of faraway places with the sun in his eyes.   I remember his crinkled mouth edges and tree-like arms around my back.   I had a friend like that once too.   You told me today of…

  • Love in all of its guises

    Love. L.O.V.E. Lightly Opening Violets Everywhere. It’s one of our most essential needs, and sadly one that is often absent in people’s lives. Last night a woman on the TV said, “There’s loads of love out there, just waiting to be found.” And I think she might be right. For many of us, love is a tricky…