safe haven

A journey through illness and lockdown, across 400 miles, to the search for self and belonging in a new place, new love, and a new understanding of what it means to be in this body I call home.

I found home, unexpected in a memory of estuary-side road nostalgia for a city I never knew could bury itself so deep in my bones, my feet and the sea is both fear and love

The last few years have brought all kinds of unforeseen challenges to so many people. Mine came in the form of an unexplained illness, which fundamentally changed me and my life, in ways I am still learning. Out of this experience came other changes - letting go of fragments of the past I had been clinging too for too long, a move to a new country, figuring my way through new love, and learning to find belonging and a sense of home in this place and this body I now find myself within.

i take your hand, eyes closed and dream of climbing the hill to the observatory in the clear cold dusk to find venus and the dog star bodies healthy, minds clear and return wrapped in each other and the night stubbing our toes on the doorstep of dawn swapping the bare light of dying suns for our place in the living constellation of this city

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