Cath Blackfeather Poetry and Short stories

  Now that the #MeToo thing has been going the rounds for a few days, we are inevitably beginning to hear from men who are also claiming ...

Thinking about silence. Being silent in a group. Thinking about patterns from our families of origin. Being on a retreat with three o...

Many years ago I read a booklet on why it’s important to learn to say no. What stands out for me from that booklet was the simple advice th...

Started 6 March 2017. Finished and Posted 23 March 2017 Well- I did it. I said I would stay with Mum till she died, be right by he...

WAITING I stand in a threshold place. Lingering in shadow, I wait. That door ajar is not for me. I accompany another. She, too,...

We’ve all heard horror stories about people who’ve been left to die in hospitals, without even water. There’s even a (now discredited) syst...

Keeping my word. Your back was turned as you lay In the bed in the stink of that ward But it was the way you raised your hand Waving with...