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


brace
wrought in tension hammering on the anvil a will to hold the centre
freyapayne5
May 311 min read
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strawman
are you knocking at my door? yes, i'll dance! teach me your loose steps and the pleasure of dissolution
freyapayne5
May 301 min read
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bubble
merging droplet to puddle, water emptying itself and throwing up a mirror to the moment, convex to its its last breath.
freyapayne5
May 291 min read
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blue
many summon this blue, to weight a body in full presence
freyapayne5
May 281 min read
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walk the line
dealing in edges gives you lines to follow
freyapayne5
May 271 min read
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skin
the rain comes drumming out on my skin all it's seen as songs of survival
freyapayne5
May 261 min read
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funnel
swept with the river a stone skimmed to the future wind reigning and gone
freyapayne5
May 251 min read
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knuckle
whose finger beckons whose hands wring over and over? if we cant bend, we snap.
freyapayne5
May 241 min read
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comma
what brought your fingers to wax, to test and trade form, restless enough with something on the tip of your tongue to keep asking, was it...
freyapayne5
May 231 min read
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hubris
As Icarus stole feathers was he also eying the ocean tides is each fall worth the flight of fancy
freyapayne5
May 221 min read
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ash-eye
what do you see? the greater proceedings that lie beyond me?
freyapayne5
May 211 min read
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stagger
crick jointed, not knowing the name of the station or how many more corners call
freyapayne5
May 201 min read
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soft space
sighing out, stroke the soft space where dreaming gathers and disperses
freyapayne5
May 191 min read
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the architecture of trenches
why do you sharpen your teeth hungry heart? starving for things in others hands. those others tread the same trench each facing off into...
freyapayne5
May 181 min read
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acclimatise
breathe without burning this flag of yourself, revving out of a ghost town, don't pick no fight here.
freyapayne5
May 171 min read
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this is an axe head
this is an axe head and i watch the hands of a craftsman, something precious to be taken in the moment as is. Pause to appraise, and the...
freyapayne5
May 161 min read
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desiccation
in a country of lochs a month since a puddle, a global scourge of dry words in mouths lost to the kissing of children
freyapayne5
May 151 min read
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crude fill
the lumpy texture of regret, as if we could go back and make good! our disregard in the moment is legend
freyapayne5
May 141 min read
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sticky
sorrow is the stickiest wrapping, the water of life has left and the residue clings even when you try to lift your finger from the...
freyapayne5
May 131 min read
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it might not have been
it might not have been the day you did walk into, feel all days present in parallel under the mist
freyapayne5
May 121 min read
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