Lavinia ThompsonJul 24, 2018Letter to Chester BenningtonDear Chester; I’ll never tell him how much I cried that day. How, as he pulled out of the driveway and disappeared, I collapsed, a...
Lavinia ThompsonJun 25, 2018Broken by TimeShe dreams of lilacs in the rain. Something about old country songs and a June downpour brings out the nostalgia. She says: “Love is...
Lavinia ThompsonMay 10, 2018Another year older...Twenty-nine isn’t old. But on the odd rainy spring night when I get home from work, I sit back in my favourite orange chair with a...
Lavinia ThompsonApr 18, 2018New poem ~ Calm of a StarA lone star over a train yard at midnight, guiding home a runaway heart. Your cigarettes still linger leftover in the ashtray; blue eyes...
Lavinia ThompsonMar 19, 2018New poem ~ ShelterAdoration of you renders me terrified. I don’t know how you see so deeply, so sharply, these fragments, this patchwork. Me and my smart...