liezel graham

author | poet | thread artist

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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.

Category: from my book, a counting of love

poems from my second collection, a counting of love

  • Lessons from the cherry tree | Refuse to live small.

    do you think that you are doing the world a favour by living small? existing—hidden and acceptable, you live a life of square angles and proper edges, even though it hurts and you know that you were not born for this. you are a soft thing, a thing that breathes beauty. you are allowed to…