I would like to give a link here to a recent post by Kalliope Amorphous, and the poems I wrote in response.

This is not the first, or even the second time that Kalliope has moved me to poetry. So I asked myself why, and the only answer I could come up with was the word authenticity. But enough – judge for yourself

http://musecatcher.com/2008/05/06/compulsive-creativity-disorder/#comment-680

KALLIOPE: TWO WAYS TO SPIN

God created light, then

watched Kalli spin: ‘close your eyes;

rest in my darkness.’

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She is the spider spinning
fibres of light;
weaving a coat of colours,
keeping away the night.
Carry her off
to an enchanted island
where there is no more scheming;
only the marks of dreaming
in the sand.