Aoife

The room was warm; her skin was cold.  Machines beeped.  Suddenly, they didn’t.  It was a silence  i still scream forever.   My favorite angel— born before her time;  the one for whom  i waited a lifetime. The more gentle parts  of a broken man…   i held a tiny hand.  one that i just can’t  fucking let go.  The hand i feel  whenever i close  100 proof eyes..   Her absence— the gap in my soul;  her memory— the burn in my gut..   i stand, alone, facing an East Wind blowing. she sleeps, unaware, in velvet of Irish green. Far away from me, on a little hill filled with big sorrows.   in the haunting symphony  of my intimate melancholy,  hers is the sweetest …

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The Gekkering

The Gekkering i will make joyful the bright noise of my reimagination. i will stand determined on the side of more patient angels. i will walk unfettered by the stain of savage predator hearts. i will run free across the less travelled pathways. i will adapt quickly to the unpredictability of rhythm. i will hunt joys of better days lurking on tomorrow’s horizon. i will write honest the story of my vagabond experience. i will achieve what is hard; i will demand what is great. i am feral. i am free. i am FOX. ##)S.D.(## 21 JAN 25

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