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bunker
don't bury the best part of yourself.
freyapayne5
Oct 31, 20241 min read
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in praise of sentiment
i wash my world in the salty tang of emotions wave i peg out my whys and wherefores on a line that unashamedly matters.
freyapayne5
Oct 30, 20241 min read
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the old woman gave
I am stepping over the worn sill of dark into light. In the cloud break old eyes offer ‘bring yourself to the table’. She moves her hand;...
freyapayne5
Oct 29, 20241 min read
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Missing someone is a mother who leaves the front door ajar
Missing someone is a mother who leaves the front door ajar
freyapayne5
Oct 28, 20241 min read
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Imagine a reunion
Could we find the bench in the mist? Could we find the bench now? Would we sit? Would we sit and recall ourselves, reckless and heady,...
freyapayne5
Oct 27, 20241 min read
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strange bed-fellows
earth and moon coupled by gravity, in each others gaze they swop origin stories, yesterday full of longing today reflecting awe tomorrow...
freyapayne5
Oct 26, 20241 min read
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I met a woman whose slowness proceeded her
I met a woman whose slowness proceeded her she shimmered the park open the leaves lapped her grace, watching her was a gift that stripped...
freyapayne5
Oct 25, 20241 min read
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black swan rising
we crave our emblematic sharp swords ringing on the anvil, pheonix in the flame burning in re-birth. But what of the waiting, the winters...
freyapayne5
Oct 24, 20241 min read
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Naming
Spoken softly in utero, handed in raw slipperiness, roll call to a bigger story of letters fading under lichen. Sewn into school jackets,...
freyapayne5
Oct 23, 20241 min read
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The grit in the oyster
The grit in the oyster keeps me from sleeping. Binds me to turn up.
freyapayne5
Oct 22, 20241 min read
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Carnival
The wind blew leaves, copper snow into the blue. The trees flying, the sky wild with glee.
freyapayne5
Oct 21, 20241 min read
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November calling
Leaf-mould breathes the mist lattice, orange streetlight fingers the edges, the ground is sheathed not yet ready to be stripped
freyapayne5
Oct 20, 20241 min read
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magnetic fish
This magnetic fish with the letter ‘l’, there when I went to clear out the abandoned toys. What use is just the letter ‘l’? They say they...
freyapayne5
Oct 19, 20241 min read
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Beginning
Beginning is beyond the lonely and the empty. A footfall into patience a beckoning of hope a recommitment to blood flowing a reconnection...
freyapayne5
Oct 18, 20241 min read
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My small act of resistance
My small act of resistance is to lie in the middle of the farm track at 6am, watch the wild sky and hold the fallen. the MOD momentarily...
freyapayne5
Oct 17, 20241 min read
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our selective will/ apple harvest
Taken in hand, in the round, feeling for bruises. The ones not breached are snugged in paper, to grow ever sweeter. The ones lost to the...
freyapayne5
Oct 16, 20241 min read
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infrastructure
i am along time away from my switchboard. Then memory pulses reconnection to your universe its a vivid slap like bringing breath to a...
freyapayne5
Oct 15, 20241 min read
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It is just between me and my daughter
My daughter made it It sits on my mantlepiece It is just between me and my daughter strength is gifted through love a carved stick with a...
freyapayne5
Oct 14, 20241 min read
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naked hands
our naked hands born to the quarry born to the piecing together of what we reach out to.
freyapayne5
Oct 13, 20241 min read
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iridescence
Maybe we all have a layer of Iridescence hidden under skin. When you turn my body over, the rainbow will finally reveal.
freyapayne5
Oct 12, 20241 min read
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