Kirstin Maguire - Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
Order & Chaos

by Kirstin Maguire 


The fine tapestry we needle between
The ordered and chaos.
Treading tight-rope of colliding worlds.

Working hard for the order
The home tidy, possessions in place,
The Papers and To Do Lists.
Healing underway for burden of your choosing,
Mysterious, mythical magnetism,
Adds and subtracts, repels and compels.  
Colourful, disorderly, untying, whirring, spinning
Dives structured, routined, organised, disciplined rigour.
Strivings’ divergence.
Striking Scorsese-eseque rebellion lurks
In shadows of fine order.
Waking, dreamed-up world
Twitches red button swerving its darkness.
It's all some great sort of balancing act,
To stride or to stumble,
To define own fine way.

The fine tapestry we needle between
The ordered and chaos.
Treading tight-rope of colliding worlds,
And gripping the surface.
Kirstin Maguire is a London based writer. She writes lots of poetry and prose, as well as essays, articles and film treatments. Her work is often inspired and informed by arts and culture, politics and philosophy, and the blues.