Category: poetry

Nails – #smallstone – Day 4

Nails – #smallstone – Day 4

unvarnished and plain,
jagged edges at the end of my body.
Toenails
Unabashed sign
Of Winter.

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Helleborus – #smallstone – Day 2

Helleborus – #smallstone – Day 2


helleborus in a washed-out chinese-food tin;
her spiked hearts and freckled petals
turning towards the pane.
Yesterday
I marveled at your shades of pale viridescence.
Today
I wonder ‘how long before the blooms fall?’

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No One Wants to Hear You, You Aberration

No One Wants to Hear You, You Aberration

Sky

I keep hearing them say:
No Drama
No Drama
Yet, all our lives and all the world around is a series of dramas playing out.
Of characters passing across the thrust
Of hearts being broken and lives being twisted
Into

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