Poem: SPLENDID IN ITS SILENCE

Post was created on September 17th, 2014

Only when I’m quiet and do not speak
can I hear your breath
slide from parted lips.

I want to kiss you
the way I used to,
pressed against your chest.

I’m afraid to steal what is not mine-
probably never was.

Take bread away from me if you wish,
I’m full of yesterday’s laughter.

The spin of your voice,
the light touch of your hand on mine.

You are my reason
for fullness.

I groan with my need to carry you

in marsh and meadow, you comfort me.
My love, splendid in its silence

splits me in two.

Book launch for
Water Forgets Its Own Name:
Bowen Island, BC • Nov. 25 2023, 7pm • Collins Hall, 1122 Miller Road
Vancouver, BC • Dec. 3, 4pm • Canadian Music Centre, Murray Adaskin Theatre, 837 Davie St.

Book launch for The Flaw, at the Canadian Music Centre BC on November 6, 2022 at 3:30-5pm.

Jude read from Naxos Greece on Saturday September 17 @ 1:00 pm-2:00 pm. PDT time. The event included Jude Neale, reading from The River Answers (Ekstasis Editions) | Shani Mootoo, Cane Fire (Book*Hug Press) | Alan Hill, In the Blood (Caitlin Press), all speaking from different places on Earth.
For information: bit.ly/3d3h3AZ
The Bowen Island launch for Inside the Pearl was on October 1, 2021, 7:30pm, at the Hearth Gallery.
Guernica launched on Zoom Sep 12, 2021 - 12:30 Pacific
Launch at Joy Kogawa House, Vancouver on September 19, 2021 at 4pm. Jude read several poems from the book with photographs.
Jude will facilitated a workshop on Sunday, August 8: "Impromptu, Poetry Writing from 1-2pm on Bowen Island. Register
In the afternoon, Jude read from A Blooming, Impromptu, The River Answers and The Flaw, from between 2:30 and 5pm on Bowen Island. She was one of several Bowen writers performing at that time. More Info