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catbeazle commented on the post, broadcast 5 months, 2 weeks ago
at night the grass rages in the park
across the river, the hill is silent
and trees broadcast earth to sky
repeating, “Life, life, life.” -
catbeazle commented on the post, roof 5 months, 2 weeks ago
When I was a kid, my bedroom window looked out onto a roof at the back of our house. One day I was helping my Dad as he was re-decorating my room. I felt sad for no reason, something that happened to me a lot then. I said “Dad, I don’t want you to die” I fought back tears, surprised and embarrassed at my own honesty. “Where will you go?”
He smiled. He took a bucket of wallpaper scraps he had peeled from the walls. “What happens if I burn these?”
“They turn to ash’, I said.
“True. And if I throw the ash out onto the roof?”
“It gets washed away”, I said, gazing at the thin rain falling outside.
“Where to?”, he asked.
“To the streams and rivers and down to the sea,” I said.
He was still smiling. I turned away and through my tears I watched the rain fall, slow and steady down the window pane, and away. -
catbeazle commented on the post, simple 5 months, 2 weeks ago
the flowers I brought for love
were simples for its cure. -
catbeazle commented on the post, ground 6 months, 2 weeks ago
I am not afraid of heights. I’m not even really afraid of falling. Its hitting the ground that troubles me.
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catbeazle commented on the post, wet 7 months, 2 weeks ago
whatever dr amphor had given me, made my thoughts blaze like fireworks against the blackness of my mind. I moved slowly, like a reluctant waiter, underwater. a traffic light shone on the wet, black road, blinking […]
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catbeazle commented on the post, secret 9 months, 3 weeks ago
the wind stole my breath
and wordless I was bereaved
of all my secrets. -
catbeazle commented on the post, statement 10 months ago
he was stylish in a loud, obvious way. his clothes made a statement. the kind of statement made under duress, at 3.00am, in a hot police cell.
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catbeazle commented on the post, doorknob 10 months, 2 weeks ago
I turned from the window, where I had been gazing out at the meadows where we used to walk and the distant oak trees where we had tried many times to shelter from the rain. The sadness in my heart turned to a jolt […]
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catbeazle commented on the post, bucket 10 months, 2 weeks ago
a child on the beach
I held a bucket
brimful;
plastic handle
quivered;
in this small water
all the gravity and mass
of an ocean
returning to itself -
catbeazle commented on the post, detention 10 months, 3 weeks ago
The sign on the wall was fly-blown and crooked. It said “DETENTION”. The room was hot as a border-town and airless as a morgue. In the corner, a thin man was kneeling and being sick into a plastic bucket, his […]
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catbeazle commented on the post, science 10 months, 3 weeks ago
were I the architect of my desires,
were i to know the science of the heart
or understand what alchemy
of memory had burnished your name
to gold before my grieving eyes,
could I yet call you mine
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catbeazle commented on the post, modem 10 months, 3 weeks ago
the modem fizzed and popped like a battery shorting out in a glass of champagne. he had not checked his email since before being sent to pentonville. she hadn’t written, but had she tried to email?
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Catbeazle commented on the post, railroad 10 months, 3 weeks ago
we stood by the railroad tracks. the dust he had kicked from his boots rising in a red plume in the late afternoon sun. we both knew we would not see each other again. I thanked him. As we shook hands I thought I […]
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Catbeazle commented on the post, harness 10 months, 3 weeks ago
the feel of a kite string in my hand
the thrumming of the line
the insistent signal from sky to earth
to harness the power of the wind
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