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.

Category: the basket of random posts filled with beauty

a big basket of posts that don’t seem to fit in anywhere, but that are still full of beauty

  • there are thin places everywhere my neighbour sings a morning song to his grandson. a small body’s laughter finds me through the thinly papered walls. the mouth of my right ear rests famished against the flimsy barricade—the patterned hindrance. the shape of the soft offering placed in my hands, at once familiar. the lilt of…