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old damage, old ground
The coal is in my hand, heavy greasy legacy, coal-fisted for new year’s first-footing. It’s calling me to draw a line, summon some...
freyapayne5
Dec 31, 20241 min read
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happinesses
memory landscape is tidal, sand riven by water islands of connection washed and reforming. I know there used to be a safe causeway.
freyapayne5
Dec 30, 20241 min read
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Lens
when the lens shatters, we see the edge of our cell. when we take down the fence, the field also becomes the path.
freyapayne5
Dec 29, 20241 min read
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Law
Not mount Fuji, but this small volcano capping in dark geometry city schemes; steadying me across the rivers wake; linking beacons heart...
freyapayne5
Dec 28, 20241 min read
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81 to 18
boxing day I sat over my ashen daughter waiting for norovirus to leave her. my 56 to her 18 to your 81, we spoke of women’s work in a...
freyapayne5
Dec 27, 20241 min read
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carnival
carnival transgressions, aggressions an inner knife edge of carnival to carnage
freyapayne5
Dec 26, 20241 min read
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wondering
no wonder we desire doorways beckoning us to step beyond they open all around us when we need them
freyapayne5
Dec 25, 20241 min read
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the calendar is waiting
It seems inconceivable that those blank neat linear pages have anything to do with me. Â now is a dark sticky fist dug-in, glue-eared,...
freyapayne5
Dec 24, 20241 min read
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two in one
A hundred years limb, wind-severed and hanging; Damocles on a diagonal over my path. Yet cradled, yet succoured by a tree not ready to be...
freyapayne5
Dec 23, 20241 min read
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Frozen
lion is locked in us, holding vulnerability in its teeth, fox takes the scraps for life
freyapayne5
Dec 22, 20241 min read
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kneeling woman
Woman kneel, kneel by your trunk in your kneeling lies your virtue in your trunk your body bartered  Pray, no I pray by sleight of hand,...
freyapayne5
Dec 21, 20241 min read
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time is not yours to barter with
No matter how your mind dances, romancing the mountain or the twists of a damsel fly time is not yours to barter with
freyapayne5
Dec 20, 20241 min read
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rusty beings
in the dark gateway attention called me to you beyond the words I have for senses. we are rusty beings.
freyapayne5
Dec 19, 20241 min read
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the brown duffle coat
8yrs awkward inside the brown duffle coat so abrasive it takes my skin off together a Tardis of stories alone  at the parameter fence
freyapayne5
Dec 18, 20241 min read
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in another life
Once air driven, song to the heaven: as seed is circular, homing now for moss and water
freyapayne5
Dec 16, 20241 min read
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meteor
2 shooting stars and a full moon. Loose something beyond your own shelter, parting yourself for travel, open to burning into another's...
freyapayne5
Dec 15, 20241 min read
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inertia is an emotional response
in absence stasis in presence flow
freyapayne5
Dec 14, 20241 min read
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in excelsis
to the glory of blue tights, how i would feel untouchable walking in excess of life
freyapayne5
Dec 13, 20241 min read
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across life
such rivers track your face the well of your ear fills with salty rage
freyapayne5
Dec 12, 20241 min read
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intergalactic traveller
little dragon i hold you to my ear the waves of the night sky lap in sound
freyapayne5
Dec 11, 20241 min read
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