Books

  • i was born

    i was born by a well, and they drew me like Rachel, and Jacob waded for fourteen years. and in my lineage, we watched trees till they became branches with boughs of almonds and grew into something more than leaves. i was born by a lake, and they took me like Moses across the rivers Read more

  • i am not geographies dream

    a. temporal spaces labelled by place and space; i expel myself from without. convergent meets divergent and terrain meets new troughs; ambivalent to physicality; ordinance surveys point to keys and nodes is a just a reflection of my physical geographies. i haven’t formed yet- a mountain, valley, lake, and brook; sand dunes and wildfires; storms Read more

  • homecoming

    as the warmth of yellow basked in the summer breeze, i parch and thirsted for new beginnings. father, when thy kingdom comes and your will begins, let origins be the find i seek. mother, when thy kingdom comes and your will complete, let etymology be the song i sing. father, when thy kingdom comes and Read more

  • healing

    A bone crumbles delicately into a sand dune,with nimble flesh and sinews of delicate grains.Memories of a once picturesque sandcastle,now has trodden silver seashells dancing in its veins. In the crumbling, memories recount,how each speck becomes residues.recurring pain lullabies in the memoriesdisguising the hunger for sleep as night-time blues. Yet the world opens an ailing Read more

  • golden years

    i.  a thousand doves search for an olive leaf.and piece by piece, they brought the tree.but all we saw was sticks and twigs.they kept adding despite our unbelief. ii.  a hundred grains searched for wholesome landand years of famine spread and grewbut all we saw was the need for food.the grains had tenacity for other Read more

  • fragile

    A fragile world;pixelated dreams;we weft in thinned walls,and ecru spews the tepid truth. A night dies,bury her over the moonlit starsfor the song of day;is fervent for the horizon. A horizon uprisingas song of day, dreams onequilibrium find the world;and ache functions like breaking walls. Buy Rivers of Broken Waters here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rivers-Broken-Water-Hannah-Williams/dp/B0CR4D1L3D © 2022 Hannah Williams. Read more