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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 28, 20251 min read


filter
let us sift again through the co-ordinates of our memory, filter feeders on moments of love
freyapayne5
Feb 27, 20251 min read


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 26, 20251 min read


give me more yellow
colour becomes manifest saturated with sound energy, pink gold trumpets dawn striping the wood, sending grey to lilac.
freyapayne5
Feb 25, 20251 min read


reworking
I am holding my forehead to the ground Whilst embers settle on my back And seeds turn in the earth
freyapayne5
Feb 24, 20251 min read


iris, shutter
eye in the skies dome, welling light.
freyapayne5
Feb 23, 20251 min read


surrender
are we back? did you notice? back in the same old puddle? let’s give up all the words.
freyapayne5
Feb 22, 20251 min read


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 21, 20251 min read


reworking
returning to the field, returning to my knees the stack kindles and burns the passion of the tree
freyapayne5
Feb 20, 20251 min read


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 19, 20251 min read


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 18, 20251 min read


now
now the body remembers how thin wishing is compared to being.
freyapayne5
Feb 17, 20251 min read


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 16, 20251 min read


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 15, 20251 min read


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 14, 20251 min read


disciple
The miracle is the appearance of the last beech leaves, wrens skit and tumble indecipherable, brown turning life in the dim light I am...
freyapayne5
Feb 13, 20251 min read


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 12, 20251 min read


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 11, 20251 min read


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 10, 20251 min read


blessings
music fingers everything with tender intelligence
freyapayne5
Feb 9, 20251 min read
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