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pennies
how many rooms have you sat in learning how to shepherd numbers towards the shining gate: shown images of attractors and inventors, only...
freyapayne5
Aug 15, 20251 min read
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hypnosis
yes, i surrender. i have no defence against your geometry, i am silenced by your precision, your thorns stop me kneeling, your centre...
freyapayne5
Aug 14, 20251 min read
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adaptations
you, a square peg in a round hole, abraded by the howling mass, melt into adaptation and find your way.
freyapayne5
Aug 13, 20251 min read
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sequencing
differentiate, separate, sort, redistribute, task your interference with a fair eye
freyapayne5
Aug 12, 20251 min read
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states of matter
we never stand alone, the fungi, the wind, the fall, the road all meet when wood shatters.
freyapayne5
Aug 11, 20251 min read
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home service
lets relay love: i reach you, you reach them, they reach theirs, don't let scrutiny slice the cherry off the cake.
freyapayne5
Aug 10, 20251 min read
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mast
dealing in connection, mast stands apart, slave to some master.
freyapayne5
Aug 9, 20251 min read
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orifice
if there is an opening it can close. the cave mouth beckons rest, risk my recess. shelter or smother, cradle and grave.
freyapayne5
Aug 8, 20251 min read
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torn
they were torn, premature, so slowly and miraculously made. life is a fighter, give it half a chance to seed, no, all your heart.
freyapayne5
Aug 7, 20251 min read
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the art of waiting
bruce and i both had a lot to learn.
freyapayne5
Aug 6, 20251 min read
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summer storm
i long for the arms of the redwood to be my arms, husky bark, steady dense heart, an ear for the north star, home to anyone.
freyapayne5
Aug 5, 20251 min read
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safe bind, safe find
the legend of possession runs anticlockwise, the harder your grasp, the smaller your gain.
freyapayne5
Aug 4, 20251 min read
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hub cap
spin me, its the end of the road here. a car crammed with restlessness; the mouth of the bottle pointing at a body with no turns left to...
freyapayne5
Aug 3, 20251 min read
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pursuit of the new
the leaf reappears, falling so often its no longer read, we scan for something beyond where we are, mocked for returning to the lesson we...
freyapayne5
Aug 2, 20251 min read
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last flower
nostalgia, our signal call- folding back time, cutting the deck like seasoned hacks. here august closes summer and the last poppy pulls...
freyapayne5
Aug 1, 20251 min read
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take the high ground
instinct groups us to the high ground, there to escape the biting and the bog, there to survey for the future, there to search for the past.
freyapayne5
Jul 31, 20251 min read
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scrape
my palette carries my colours, shows my schema, i load it, "show me, show me" and scrape it back, "not that, not that" whilst it bears...
freyapayne5
Jul 30, 20251 min read
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what is the sign
what is the sign for violence, for vertebra piercing skins, for bullet wounds in backs, for poisoned lands, for numb minds, for averted...
freyapayne5
Jul 29, 20251 min read
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enmeshed
please stop now. these patterns we make are not pretty. no, i cant look up, i have to have my place with these things, i cannot stop. you...
freyapayne5
Jul 28, 20251 min read
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lay down the smallest
lay down the smallest with care, calibrate your senses to their call, notice their need to receive their certain place, your certain love.
freyapayne5
Jul 27, 20251 min read
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