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Man in a landscape
Bird: You want something? You expect something? You believe that whip gives you some kind of dominion? Horse: He likes to think he knows,...
freyapayne5
Aug 31, 20241 min read
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Before the leaf
In the heart of the forest, in the space before a falling leaf, multiple universes flicker open. A polish poet watches, with scarce...
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Aug 30, 20241 min read
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when in doubt
when in doubt i take the long way around, time slows, tongue thickens, eye's fasten onto fragments, in singularity, a shoot of grass...
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Aug 29, 20241 min read
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Under the volcano
If the world runs through us,
our experience synonymous to wider patterns,
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Aug 28, 20241 min read
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fire said to earth
Let me come closer, I am hankering, itchy, dancing, restless, my beauty too much, it burns all the words that are thrown, the vacuum is...
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Aug 27, 20241 min read
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Roofer
You tiled that roof, young on a spring morning, sure hands on the slate, forming a pattern from the rapture of the birdsong, heartbeat,...
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Aug 26, 20241 min read
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naked ground
How does the ground feel without walls, knowing itself naked, as continuity, always curving, eve before the apple. And with walls?...
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Aug 26, 20241 min read
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Questions for the universe
We hold our questions of wonder and despair like children with stones to drop into a darkening well. Rim bound, feet in the dust we let...
freyapayne5
Aug 25, 20241 min read
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Letter to the child
If I could write to you? My love, I would still be stumbling around in the dark for words that might fit for another life time. Rather...
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Aug 23, 20241 min read
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re-vision
to see again. to turn this thing inside out, pull out the fingers of the glove, check the imprint of the hand cast our minds back, fish...
freyapayne5
Aug 23, 20241 min read
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I am back to hugging trees
I am back to hugging trees, my line of scot’s pine and oak. Grey trunks are still in the half light  whilst branches bear the estuary...
freyapayne5
Aug 21, 20241 min read
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In the time before you fell
In the time before you fell, through the surface, into the bloodshed of Gaza, I could find innocence in the sunrise. ‘here’ and ‘there’...
freyapayne5
Aug 20, 20241 min read
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The wind leaves me hieroglyphics
The wind leaves me hieroglyphics; small red twigs glow on the grey path. Tips of branches blown to form a language of love at my feet. I...
freyapayne5
Aug 13, 20241 min read
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