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rerouting
Go! find your own way home not in the slip stream of habit but naked along new paths.
freyapayne5
Feb 281 min read
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filter
let us sift again through the co-ordinates of our memory, filter feeders on moments of love
freyapayne5
Feb 271 min read
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lumber puncture
a begonia of three generations illuminates the grand room as we register loss, reserves shaken. How shocks to the system bleed the...
freyapayne5
Feb 261 min read
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give me more yellow
colour becomes manifest saturated with sound energy, pink gold trumpets dawn striping the wood, sending grey to lilac.
freyapayne5
Feb 251 min read
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reworking
I am holding my forehead to the ground Whilst embers settle on my back And seeds turn in the earth
freyapayne5
Feb 241 min read
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iris, shutter
eye in the skies dome, welling light.
freyapayne5
Feb 231 min read
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surrender
are we back? did you notice? back in the same old puddle? let’s give up all the words.
freyapayne5
Feb 221 min read
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slip
It doesn’t take much, a small parting of the way, a shift of surfaces an incision, a gap, a game of chance, of give and take, odds on...
freyapayne5
Feb 211 min read
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reworking
returning to the field, returning to my knees the stack kindles and burns the passion of the tree
freyapayne5
Feb 201 min read
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spark
a tree sparks in the dark greening above the felled stack, the symmetry is an alter lining me up to fall to my knees.
freyapayne5
Feb 191 min read
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let’s not talk of limits
change walks with you in the lee of any approach the shadow of things ending and beginning.
freyapayne5
Feb 181 min read
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now
now the body remembers how thin wishing is compared to being.
freyapayne5
Feb 171 min read
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tantrum
I depart the propriety of my face and scream. perhaps its was there all along, left over from birth and now inevitably erupting, when the...
freyapayne5
Feb 161 min read
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omen
not watching for but waiting, four years since your stark white flanks cut the field Not stag but ghost, not ghost but omen, the flat...
freyapayne5
Feb 151 min read
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further
no longer does further lead longing. still days come, and pain may wait in-bound, yet remaining, in revolution with the world on its...
freyapayne5
Feb 141 min read
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disciple
The miracle is the appearance of the last beech leaves, Â wrens skit and tumble indecipherable, brown turning life in the dim light I am...
freyapayne5
Feb 131 min read
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gorse
the wind dampens my back the rain is sea spray and seal cry still borne in land, frozen I take from the gorse spines and sustenance
freyapayne5
Feb 121 min read
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pine
the paths are strewn with your red weeping the storms brush out your hair it tangles and matts the forest floor so we cannot fall through...
freyapayne5
Feb 111 min read
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daff
I test the papery cowl, take it between my lips to taste how far away life is. February haunts with waiting, I hold the thinning gap and...
freyapayne5
Feb 101 min read
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blessings
music fingers everything with tender intelligence
freyapayne5
Feb 91 min read
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