June 2014

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this book
yielding the breath
of beyond

Details: Written by: Stephen Bailey

with these words
fingertipping
the void

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leafless tree
how lifeless the dance
this winter

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night storm —
nameless trees flash
up the valley

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a chill solace of endless stars

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eyes closed so prolong the night

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within it
the page of tundra
yellows too

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winter beach —
an albatross asks
'who moved?'

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winter beach —
the welcoming walls
of an open grave

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winter beach —
the incoming tide
of horizons

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hermit crab —
the stream of words sidesteps
the obvious

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with clenched teeth
sea-spray lashes apart
the veneer

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the loss
of my words
of loss

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slow flow sap —
the stillbirth of words
dragging clouds

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winter sky
maybe a bird dies
or doesn't

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wood smoke
my loneliness lingers
near the flame

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lost and found

candlelight flickers

over her

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between here

and the fence post

static whispers

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in this world

neither a foxhole

nor a nest

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on the wing

a twitter a halfinch

from my finger

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rising stream —

ancient archetypes

haunt my words

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string theory —

a fly shakes free

from the web

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breath cloud —

at last my words

take fire

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parting ways

between two streetlights

my shadows

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death mask —

the smile so beguiling

as if it knew

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thunder struck

the sky billows up

in B-flat major

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free verse poet

her paper dress unfolds

before me

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river fog —

a chiaroscuro of self

word by word

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the sea change

at full fathom five

through his eyes

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autumn flag

the bones of Hone Heke

rattle away

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