liezel graham

author | poet | thread artist

I am a storyteller and a poet.

I use words and thread, pencil and needle, paper and fabric.

my work is an ongoing conversation with myself.

on the third day.

on the morning after the day

that tiptoes behind

christmas

relief

finds me

finally

i allow myself to be

washed

rain

falls over me

i am

turned outside

folded into a new skin

once upon a time

when i owned all the answers

and

all the answers owned me

i called it praying.

— on the third day.

Photograph by Nathan Dumlao.