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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
new year's dawn
light unknown 'til now
honeys night

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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
day moon . . .
one half of it lost
in the blue

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Category: January 2015
climate change—
the silence of the lambs
gnaws at my bones

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Category: January 2015
temple bell—
the stone cold silence
it conceals

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Category: January 2015
new year heat
my words take refuge
in the glib

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Category: January 2015

making do with meeting ends


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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
vacation—
just the emptiness
left behind

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Category: January 2015
moon-filled night—
clouds of unknowing
burn within

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Category: January 2015
first-footing
a divined stable
star-crossed gifts

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Category: January 2015
legal eagle
the fine print appears
less blurred

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Category: January 2015

drop by drop cloud-fall of joy


 

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Category: January 2015
summer light . . .
this path turns away
from the feast

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Category: January 2015
cave weta . . .
the tenuousness
of light

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Category: January 2015

in flight the colour of what was


 

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Category: January 2015
cloud fade—
the shapeshifting light
of being
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Category: January 2015
autumn sun—
exoticism blooms
from an oak
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Category: January 2015
this moon too
it all comes to
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Category: January 2015
cloud-choked night—
closed eyes recreate
the expanse
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Category: January 2015
early bird
birthing the world
into which 
it sings
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Category: January 2015
cattle trough—
a paddock jumps
into its sound
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Category: January 2015
night deepens—
just the sound of words
to feel this
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Category: January 2015
where I'm not
shapes twist the entrails
of a cumulus
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Category: January 2015
air moves
to my voice—
the heat
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
the words I write
stepped over
by a fly
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
emptiness—
I listen for the tone 
in my voice
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
from the hole
rise the dull thuds
of our goodbyes
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
moss script—
the stony silence
now hers
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
profit margin—
you diss my idols
I break your face
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Category: January 2015
day moon cloud—
all that fades without words
fades without words
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Category: January 2015
unseasonal rain—
in tomorrow's news
the death of today
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Category: January 2015
tidal mud—
the sound of loss
tugs at me
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Category: January 2015
summer clouds
trailing off somewhere
with my voice
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Category: January 2015
dense with stars
night grows expansive
behind my eyes 
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Category: January 2015
day moon— 
your disabled normalcy,
my son
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Category: January 2015
new year heat
the very air slows
to my pace
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Category: January 2015
this consciousness . . .
what does it feel like
as it ends?
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Category: January 2015
dusky sky
wrenching the silence 
from silence
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Category: January 2015
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Category: January 2015
 
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Category: January 2015
 
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be done on earth 
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     just as it is in heaven
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Category: January 2015
lingering dusk— 
daylight withdraws its last
semblance of order
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Category: January 2015
night of stars— 
the fullness within me
flickers unseen
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Category: January 2015
leaving light— 
the shimmer on the brink
of seeing
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Category: January 2015
summer bounty . . .
city malls birthing
usurers
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Category: January 2015
danger zone
my shadow skirts
the obvious
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Category: January 2015
wormholed night . . .
I sleep past the ends
of my dreams
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Category: January 2015
tadpole galaxy— 
I eavesdrop on the drama
played out before us
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Category: January 2015
us and them
taking the unknown
personally
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Category: January 2015
star risen night— 
the depth of longing
still in me
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Category: January 2015
ripe onion— 
the outer roundness
of her belly
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Category: January 2015
datastore . . .
virtual shadows
of my self
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Category: January 2015
moving water . . .
my shadow laps at
the edges
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Category: January 2015
cloudless day . . .
so much harder to see
what lies hidden
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Category: January 2015
burnt offering— 
the move from holocaust
to Holocaust
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Written by: Stephen Bailey
Category: January 2015
cicada,
what secret are you
drenching me in?
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Category: January 2015
string theory— 
another mosquito
sounds me out
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Category: January 2015
spirit wind— 
mosquitoes zero
in on me

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Category: January 2015
paper wasps . . .
facial recognition
sets us apart
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Category: January 2015
year of light . . .
our eyes strain away from
this scorching earth
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Category: January 2015
distant gong— 
the toll life is taking
out of me
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Category: January 2015
life cycle
one revolution
complete
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