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Bright-edged mezzaluna rocks through the trees, bifurcating branches, slashing twigs to crosshatch in the deep blue of its bowl. #smallstone

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A gap in the words, in a heartbeat I leap - tumble, fly, soar - into that boundless space. A joke. Wings clipped, bumpy landing. #smallstone

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Only the neatly piled pieces of peel, unzipped so slowly, remain to tell of the flesh's sharp sweetness, sucked down so swiftly. #smallstone

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A faint snuffing at the gap under the door. Having tracked down the quarry she stretches her length along the threshold to wait. #smallstone

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Perched unknowingly on the fulcrum of the old school bench a single thoughtless move tips up its length - unbalanced, off kilter #smallstone

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Flash of red and gold in the sunlight - a goldfinch! Five steps closer bird becomes beer, a can rammed on the point of a bollard #smallstone

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Fusebox fellatio in the dark of the park. He perched, legs spread, at an elevation, she hardly stooping, not stopping as I pass. #smallstone

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Working in a cage of desk-lamp light. Beyond the blank unblinded window, sudden stream of summer - a blackbird sings to the dark #smallstone

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Changing the bed also means the removal of 1 laptop, 1 coffee cup, 3 books, 1 kindle, 3 knitting projects and the dog's blanket. #smallstone

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Yesterday's sardines still detectable on my fingertips, defying frequent washing. Or is it the perfume of a paranoid imagining? #smallstone

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Pissed off. Sad. Angry. Irritable. Defensive. Melancholy. Resentful. Not every small stone is a jewel. Some are covered in slime #smallstone

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The green flag award, halyard beating on pole in the boisterous wind, brings the sound of summer marinas to a winter city park. #smallstone

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Bathing my face in the fragrant steam of yesterday's soup, reheating, I aspire to the broth's alchemy of only improving with age #smallstone

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A friend, betrayed. The news like a rock hurled in a lake. Waves of sorrow & pity; in the depths a darker nameless perturbation. #smallstone

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Sitting on the train bracing the wet bike against my shins, flipping the day's rolodex, turning over each #smallstone - which one to choose?

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The start of my time for me. Eyes closed. The dog licks her sore paw, a bath filling, the boiler's purr. Day's sediment settles #smallstone

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Two women smoking outside school, leaning close, heads inclined like lovers. On passing, the shared passion proves to be gossip. #smallstone

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http://ur1.ca/7iro2. Is it possible to listen to this without moving?

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Nearly twenty years marked out by births and babies and boys, now loosening their bands. May I make some growth rings of my own? #smallstone

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Opening packets of photographs the acrid reek of developer & fixative. Colours have faded and fogged, memories recede in mist. #smallstone