Some creatures come without you even calling.
They arrive,while you are sleeping, through your door…
Particular light…when it comes, it comes to change us.
Some light, when it comes, it comes to stay.
It takes our grief and helps us sculpt it into bone.
It nestles in, beside those bones, a porcelain silence.
Some creatures, through their absence, bring the light.’
This week my second book came out into this wild, tender, achingly beautiful world. On publication day I swam in the belly of the sea as my son played with trucks on the beach; an ordinary, fucking exquisite day.
Two days earlier I held it in my hands along with a moon my soul sister had made me to mark this moment and I held back tears just thinking of all that we have all come through in these last years; how we have been made and remade over and over ; how we each of us has carried in our bones the light of all that makes us human, makes us mammal, makes us us.
That night I stood in a room full of the most gorgeous humans, so full of all things bright & light; song & bone. I don’t remember ever feeling so proud, so humbled, so grateful, so alive.
What does it mean to notice light?
To allow it to crawl in beside your bones so that you are more a part of this world than you could ever before have imagined?
Some creatures come without you even calling.
They arrive, while you are sleeping, through your door.
Particular light…when it comes, it comes to change us.
Some light, when it comes, it comes to stay.
I’m setting off on tour this week and can’t wait to see some beautiful people! Tickets available for Portobello Bookshop, Lighthouse Bookshop , The Highland Bookshop , Dublin International Literature Festival and Charleston Festival of the Garden
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Thanks a million to everyone for their kindness this week, my heart is so full x
Congratulations Kerri! It’s a beautiful book 🤍
Many congratulations, Kerri. I look forward to reading the book. Wishing you every success with the book tour and so very happy for you.