I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

- Pablo Neruda

Kate Stone Matheson

9 January 2017

But Does It Scan?

To Dream Perchance To Sleep

Kate Stone Matheson

9 January 2017

But Does It Scan?

To Dream Perchance To Sleep

I lie here,
hopeful in dazed delusion
of the chance
as Blake’s
bright burning tiger
in his forests
that I am yet dreaming
perchance to sleep –

Yup. Grinch and proud of it. #blerghmas #jinglemenobells #festivusfortherestofus

The twelve days of Blerghmas. Jingle freakin’ bells. #hohono #festivusfortherestofus

Oh Monday. How I hate thee. #wine #grump

Part of a very hard post to write, both because of the subject matter, and from not flexing my mental muscles in quite some time. Link to The Red Bed Sheet of Destiny at ADW in bio. #mentalhealth #amwriting #everydayheroes

Why is it that at three in the morning, the words all line up easily, marching their way out of your brain into battalions of perfect prose, ready to blaze for eternity... then by sunrise when reviewing the same words and trying to see anything good

Hello, possums - er, blossoms. A little bit of hope swinging into #spring #melbourne #twilight #flowers #blossom #hope

My bedside BCF (best cat friend) doing her damndest to celebrate #internationalcatday by - well, doing what she does best... sleeping heavily, interspersed with intervals of fine dining. And keeping me company whilst stuck in bed with her best Floren

Bushfire skies over Perth with Sawyers Valley on fire. The smell bringing back memories of childhood evacuations, grabbing the cat and Lego. #perth #bushfire

Part of a new poem, The Biographer. #amwriting #amwritingpoetry #instaverse #instapoetry #adifficultwoman #adw

Perth. #perth #australia #nightsky #kingspark #gumtree #paulkelly