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


the four horsemen
The four horsemen ride out of my radio. Stepping into the darkness they walk with me, slowing. Together we stop to admire the crown of...
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Jan 9, 20251 min read


Lost and found
daily I pulse, a force shatters out a force pulls back.
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Jan 8, 20251 min read


cracks in the pavement
the street has a tide, the current flows, some don't see the cracks in the pavement, others walk only along them.
freyapayne5
Jan 7, 20251 min read


bird
you are waiting for me to sing with you. my mind is looking for the words my body is looking for the tune have patience.
freyapayne5
Jan 6, 20251 min read


Some things don’t get thrown away
Some things don’t get thrown away you are layered into this room, your practicing disguises, flirtations with self, a grappling with...
freyapayne5
Jan 5, 20251 min read


All migrants
All migrants are welcome. with the tide or against the tide.
freyapayne5
Jan 4, 20251 min read


moss
I grow with the greening of moss, the last window i need to watch planting my body and the seeds of my teeth feeling the day slip into...
freyapayne5
Jan 3, 20251 min read


am I not the same?
the ochre tree steps back into its winter self. It meets me anew asking am I not the same? I halt to search for my former selves, Trying...
freyapayne5
Jan 2, 20251 min read


post islands
luckily there are different worlds available.
freyapayne5
Jan 1, 20251 min read


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


happinesses
memory landscape is tidal, sand riven by water islands of connection washed and reforming. I know there used to be a safe causeway.
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Dec 30, 20241 min read


Lens
when the lens shatters, we see the edge of our cell. when we take down the fence, the field also becomes the path.
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Dec 29, 20241 min read


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


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


carnival
carnival transgressions, aggressions an inner knife edge of carnival to carnage
freyapayne5
Dec 26, 20241 min read


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


the calendar is waiting
It seems inconceivable that those blank neat linear pages have anything to do with me. now is a dark sticky fist dug-in, glue-eared,...
freyapayne5
Dec 24, 20241 min read


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


Frozen
lion is locked in us, holding vulnerability in its teeth, fox takes the scraps for life
freyapayne5
Dec 22, 20241 min read


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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