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.

Tag: on seeking joy

  • when joy was a dead bird within my chest.

    i woke up this morning with joy, a dead bird within my chest. she just lay there. curled up, a weight of dead feathers; throat silent. and i wanted to mourn her, rail angrily against the poisonous seeds that had stolen her. cancer. depression. death. fear. anger. loneliness. foreignness. distance. and all the dark things…