PATRICK TEN BRINK

Weaving Words

Our conversations are a constant threading of words:
yours and mine, weaving together over time, our
daughters add precious pinks and blacks, gold and bright green,
friends come and offer blues, perhaps purples, sometimes silver.
If we could see it all together, these years of
conversation, the several joined lifetimes, what
would the tapestry of words look like, and
how can we protect it from the moths of old age?

Patrick lives and works in Brussels, his day job dedicated to protecting the environment, his spare time to writing poetry, fiction and art reviews. His poetry has appeared in the US, Canada, and Germany, including B-Movie Cacti (The Berlin Literary Review), Iguana (Honeyguide Literary Magazine), Zen Garden, Kyoto (Dreamers Creative Writing 2018 Haiku competition), and Koyasan Cemetery (Maya’s Micros, The Closed Eye Open). His short stories have appeared in the US, Canada, UK, Belgium, Germany, and India. Urban Enigmas, the poetry chapbook, was published in the US by Dipity Press. Linktree: https://linktr.ee/Patrick_ten_Brink