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      grief is a room

            Grief is a solitary room,a place you sit in alone. Over time that room stretches;grief becomes a shared landscape,the mourned being landscape itself—not gone, but part of the airthat settles around each connection. It turns into a kind of weatheryou move...

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      nipping at your ghost

      “Nipper”A small dog waits beside the brass horn,ears lifted, body held in that soft readinessonly devotion can teach.Once a wanderer,he learned the shape of shelterin the warmth of a single voice.Cold metal greets him now.The horn’s rim carries a...

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      between the leaves

      “between the leaves”Midday.A shaded path beside the stream.The grass glows in the heat.Damp earth rises — sharp, clean —with a faint scent of wet bark.A first gustturns.A curl of dust rises at my feet.The air carries a metal tang.The...

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      hills to climb

      "hills to climb"     A figure counted once,standing where the verge breaks open.Word intact, meaning thinned,a marker left upright by habit alone.   Grass leans in, listening.Its tilt becomes direction,though the ground beneath itslides in its own quiet argument.   Your craft appears sideways—a pattern...

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      • Nice.
        I was told ages ago that it’s a flaw in writing to give inanimate things the ability to do conscious things, like the grass leaning to listen, as if it knew to.
        Yet, I argued that in creative writing, comes a creative freedom to paint things in a different light. To give it that “as if”.
        That’s what makes it more interesting and even unpredictable.
        Well done poem here. I truly enjoyed it.

        • Took out the “as if” during the edit to tighten the line. It’s like jumping into coloured chalk floor paintings and let Mary Poppins take care of the rest. And yes, I was told that too. But then again poetic licence, freedom of speech and creative expression all say otherwise. Thanks for your much valued visit. Truly grateful for the word you left here as well. 🙏🕊️

      • Dear K,

        Even your summary waxes poetic. I enjoyed this piece because the inanimate had something to offer. It was a lovely image seeing and feeling the energy transfer from one thing to another throughout the write. Lovely piece. H🌷

        • Thank you, dear Honoria, for keeping that energy in transfer-flow. Now, even after the poem has rested from its reading a work it began continues on. Most appreciatively, K.

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      our old stretch

      We gather with the year still warmfrom all the hands that shaped it,passing cups across the tableas if the work might start againthe moment someone nods,each of us carrying this stretch of our yearin pockets, boots, and notebooks.A creak...

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