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.

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  • behind my words, sometimes

    i don’t know when i learnt how to do this, this soft-subtle warfare that falls from my tongue. how i send words out of my mouth, after letting each one climb rough-shod up the rose-dotted trellis of my throat, without allowing them to pick a single bloom first, only thorns. in my defence, sometimes i…