January 10th, 2018

Photo still from Once Upon a Time, The Miller’s Daughter (ABC TV)

​Spinning

Here you sit
Twisting your chair into
Yarn. Each tired nail bent; each
Splintered cord undone.

Here you squirm
Gnashing, gnarled teeth
Clamped down on a
Little Unlived Life.

Negative photograph flashes
Yellowed faces once alive. Laughing.
Belching. Racing. Furious with
Desire and Unrequited Love.

My face now –
Twisted. Gnarled. Sneering. This
Little Life Not Mine.
Red-eye photo

Voids lusty, emboldened smile.
Quashes freedom. I sit here
Spinning. I’m spinning. Just
Spinning. Spinning for gold.
- JFH 1.10.2018


          “the world gives you so much pain and here you are making gold out of it 
                                              - there is nothing purer than that” 
                                                   Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey