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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
awake before dawn
a distant gull verifies
that I'm still here
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Stephen Bailey
look at me!
feel me put my words
in your mouth
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Stephen Bailey
winter rain –
as flies to wanton boys
a monarch's fall
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Stephen Bailey
in luca
the dying light
of an acronym
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Stephen Bailey
dead low water
and then my genome
pulls me back
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Stephen Bailey
manuka bush
air rattles scent-rich
in night's becoming
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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
dusk-light still
everything in flow
and ever-go
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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
on window fog
I trace the physiognomy
of darkness
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Stephen Bailey
unbroken grey
every nook and cranny
lost to me
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Stephen Bailey
moonlit chill –
rock-pocked reflection
of spent passion
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Stephen Bailey
mimicking the master
the monkey
in his mind
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Stephen Bailey
in so few
words dance beyond
the horizon
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Stephen Bailey
in being
these words
with your voice
are my flesh
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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
listening
into word-
lessness
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
you are here
where light
ends
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Stephen Bailey
in this 'now'
tourists tailgating
wind's cortege
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
she died
eels slipping through
a grasp
of words
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Stephen Bailey
watch vague images
weave the act of creation
from a formless fog . . .
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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
clouds there
moon-gouged into
the night
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
filtered light –
yes! I can hardly bear
this world's beauty
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
frost-fresh
the air still to be
breathed into
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
each breath
left justified
in the air
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Stephen Bailey
the silence
before and after
this silence
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
gathering storm
we birds keep singing
until we wake
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
all at sea
a wind-tossed path
laid bare
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
changeling child
true blood of my blood
full of night
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Stephen Bailey
Bastille Day –
a storm front blasts in
from Antarctica
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Stephen Bailey
grave matter –
echoes of Prague
thunder by
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Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
noumenal night . . .
a new moon obsesses
all over me
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Written by:
Stephen Bailey
Otata 8
sanctuary light
my shadow settles back
into itself