Tag: counter-field
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The Night Is Young
Evening settles over the river; friends laugh on the damp grass. Memory hovers—half-forgotten, half-desired—like a country glimpsed in fading light.
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Whalesong
A reflective poem about whales suspended in air, memory, and the haunting echo of whalesong in a concrete tunnel.
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Little Hooks
A poem of moons and tides, of memory’s splinters and small betrayals that lodge like hooks, refusing to leave.
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Morning River Notes
Four haiku river poems
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A Tiny Deity
A poem set at the river’s edge in spring, a child lifts fruit into sunlight—an ordinary act that becomes creation, renewal, and wonder.
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Day-Possum
A ringtail possum scurries along the powerline at noon, drawn out of hiding by mango scent — a stillness poem of summer abundance.
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The Letter
A quiet stillness poem: a woman hesitates before an unopened envelope as rain and silence stretch.
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The Oars, Forgotten
An observational poem: rowers adrift mid-river, oars forgotten, a magpie watching in the afternoon stillness.