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fine art projects with painting, etching and stained glass, sales and commissions, studio updates via '8 minute poems' blog


sell me
sell me my memories of campfires and starlight, cowboys, cliches and on-screen kisses.
freyapayne5
Aug 31, 20251 min read
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part
the tide moves through, mesmeric, breath of silver, so many different ways of telling, i'm watching the tremor in your lips.
freyapayne5
Aug 30, 20251 min read
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reaper
how to feed a nation it's measure, one day in one day around, one day out.
freyapayne5
Aug 29, 20251 min read
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revere
by chance, by design, no words are needed.
freyapayne5
Aug 28, 20251 min read
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looking for dark matter
Ganymede could be a detector for dark matter, they say something about slow solar decay. as gods before bore witness to the unknowable...
freyapayne5
Aug 27, 20251 min read
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snag
softly, softly, lay the cloth over the snag in the dream
freyapayne5
Aug 26, 20251 min read
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defecation
no simple symmetry, our waste takes mutant shape, beyond our bodies, in excess of the natural return.
freyapayne5
Aug 25, 20251 min read
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grovel
be faithful and receive the scraps from the table. put up and shut up.
freyapayne5
Aug 24, 20251 min read
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interloper
in delight the blue glass shines, shards soon sand. our eyes glean difference and segregate, what damage our jurisdiction.
freyapayne5
Aug 23, 20251 min read
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grey
slender grey veil shield me, time splinters on the other side. i like it here where it is too slow to long for, too spacious to rub regret.
freyapayne5
Aug 22, 20251 min read
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stroke
deft, directional, your singular intention. you, who can touch the skin of the sleeper with the ache of an ocean, or sever time as you turn.
freyapayne5
Aug 21, 20251 min read
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branch
where do you stop the splitting, tap energy becoming too weak to push. how do you thank the form of chance and greet the end of the road?
freyapayne5
Aug 20, 20251 min read
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the mirror of the family
in the mirror of the family is where i find the life lessons that bolt my weak will and wandering mind, to wrest from enmity and rest in...
freyapayne5
Aug 19, 20251 min read
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keep it simple
its an isle, a groove for my tune, i just have to follow, safe shoulder to shoulder, watch my feet and lose myself.
freyapayne5
Aug 18, 20251 min read
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held in tension
a form in a space; see one, the other, or the whole. too often the switch is only between the horizon and a body held in tension.
freyapayne5
Aug 17, 20251 min read
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stubble
A year! what worth in the remnants? each day a snapshot, a few scraped words, each crush the same sigh. hollow stalks cut, chaff...
freyapayne5
Aug 16, 20251 min read
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pennies
how many rooms have you sat in learning how to shepherd numbers towards the shining gate: shown images of attractors and inventors, only...
freyapayne5
Aug 15, 20251 min read
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hypnosis
yes, i surrender. i have no defence against your geometry, i am silenced by your precision, your thorns stop me kneeling, your centre...
freyapayne5
Aug 14, 20251 min read
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adaptations
you, a square peg in a round hole, abraded by the howling mass, melt into adaptation and find your way.
freyapayne5
Aug 13, 20251 min read
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sequencing
differentiate, separate, sort, redistribute, task your interference with a fair eye
freyapayne5
Aug 12, 20251 min read
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