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In This, and Any Other Hour
Less than one hour ago: 15 August 2016 13 All Feathers, Under Skin She’s laid aside the supple skin of woven silk that graced your nights for such a long, uneven time, the ghost who goes through shaded lights and … Continue reading
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Weird, but Weirdly Wise
8 June 2016 8 In Sight of What’s Wise My shivering ghost awoke lonely last morning, its thin cotton sheets soaked right through, and so cold. Why the high window lay wide open all through the night, I don’t know, … Continue reading
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Still
Surely this is all still part of anniversary grief. He was brilliant, but more than that, he was infinitely imaginative and kind. My forever friend, you are always welcome to dream with me, and tell me everything. 26 April 2016 … Continue reading
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Little Tears and Wings
Today was fine and clear in the afternoon, and I walked out and looked around. Along the main road, I followed an empty lot that was just dry gravel, no pavement. Beside it, I watched for a long time a … Continue reading
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Before and After You Left
See my last post, if there is any mystery to this: Before and After You Left A new looming strangeness grows into the patterns our tired hands have woven since time out of mind. Stand just a shade to the … Continue reading
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Oh, Here
3 July 2014 Oh, Here It’s all so close, everything tender and subtle, between-the-worlds. Work is what keeps me here, in the vale of beautiful nature; with you on either and neither side. Here is quite a lot of it: … Continue reading
Sotry Here
6 June 6 2014 There’s a story here, and it is dedicated to someone I very deeply love—someone I will not see again. This won’t be spun for drama; it is sorrow that is already in many ways well sung. … Continue reading
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Welcome to Rain Harp
RAIN HARP Last year, I endured my own personal inferno. It may be ongoing. In the hope that I am wrong, and that the disasters are approaching their end, I am blogging again. When it all began, I had a … Continue reading
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