Tamara Nicholl-Smith

Lazarus Box

Here, from my box of precious things: a handful of rose petals dry and wither-burnt; a smooth stick in the shape of...

Winter’s Still Song

(after hearing Morten Lauridsen’s Magnum Mysterium at a friend’s Wedding) The hush falls like soft-feathered snow, as light takes its leave.  ...

Red (On Learning of a Suicide)

Sing sanguine seraphim, make holy our sorrows, singe them sweet.   Cleanse the red remainders of a day gone wrong, splattered like...

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