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320: Ancient Ghosts
you slip through the undergrowth unseen unnoticed in the grey mist of dawn a shadow flitting from one tree to the next ghostly in your...
Nov 29, 20211 min read
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319: Winter Lights
We follow the trails of sparkling light to the golden windows where laughter and music sing. Inside, it looks warm — a bubble of heat,...
Nov 26, 20211 min read
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318: Hymn to Hestia
Long may she reign; may she always pick herself back up again. May flowers bloom in her steps and the sun shine upon her crown. May she...
Nov 24, 20211 min read
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317: Warm Dreams, Cold Days
He wakes up and she fades into a world of dreams and hopes and undying devotion. She waits at the corner of his vision, taunts with her...
Nov 22, 20211 min read
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316: You Find Yourself
You find yourself in the scattered pieces of this land. The ruins are the memories of times long lost and gone, uninhabited,...
Nov 19, 20211 min read
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315: The Day Has Reached Its End
Frost creeps over the ground, the day has reached its end. Like snowflakes swirling in the lamp light we slowly come to rest under gentle...
Nov 17, 20211 min read
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314: Frost
I like the frost. I like the way it creeps across the world, like a blanket of shimmering light. It catches in the glow of lamps and...
Nov 15, 20211 min read
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313: Better Than Today
I found your bottle. I found your shards. Bleak and dulled, the gleam still caught my eyes. One moonlit night I walked the beach of an...
Nov 12, 20211 min read
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312: Lost at Sea
Can glass float? Hollowed out, paper-thin, filled with air — will the waves carry it or will it drown? Where will the shards go? Who will...
Nov 10, 20211 min read
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311: The Blue Bottle
You empty the blue bottle in the middle of the night. The city lights rush past painting streaks of light in an otherwise dismal heart....
Nov 8, 20211 min read
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307: Does it Make a Difference?
Sometimes I wonder what is a more worthy topic of poetry: hurled obscenities and allusive (elusive) remarks about ideologies and...
Oct 22, 20211 min read
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306: A Meditative Practice
I sit at the kitchen table and write. A square of morning light falls on me. I watch the shadow of my pen wander across the page like a...
Oct 20, 20211 min read
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305: Tea Ceremony
They offer me jasmine in the morning, while dawn creeps over the horizon to peer at our silence. Steam rises as the temperature drops to...
Oct 18, 20211 min read
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303: The Princess and the Knight Who Shared a Body
I chase her through the snow, the woman I should have been, until she fades into the grey distance, taunting me with her laughter and...
Oct 13, 20211 min read
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302: The Waiting Room
Any number of minutes in Heaven becomes permanent when you die. Assuming there is a Heaven. But even if there isn't, even if there's only...
Oct 11, 20212 min read
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301: Of Fantasies and Fictions
My bookshelf came furnished with Freud and Jung, with political treaties and dreaded histories of battles long since won, of three swords...
Oct 8, 20211 min read
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300: Swallowed by Time
Recently I've found time swallowing my words Like a beast of hunger at a gourmet restaurant Swallows each little canapé And wants for...
Oct 6, 20211 min read
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299: The Hidden Side of the Moon
The hidden side of the moon is red. He doesn't know how he knows; he's never been there, never seen it, doesn't know anyone who's seen it...
Oct 4, 20211 min read
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298: Bottles, Baskets, Boxes, and Jars
We picked and collected and harvested to our hearts' content and when we came home, we filled jars and bottles and baskets and boxes to...
Oct 1, 20211 min read
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297: Blood and Veins
When they shut the curtains in the silence of their own room, they let their armour rest and expose their blood and veins to the gentle...
Sep 29, 20211 min read
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