Jujube (165)

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The Messenger

The messenger fractures the dawn, arriving without a message. Light is stranded in the hollow of the collarbone. We watch the moment rehearse its own extinction Flame alone, the compass; Sparks alone, our stories. –Jujube

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The Sea

I need the sea because it teaches me. I don’t know if I learn music or awareness, if it’s a single wave or its vast existence, or only its harsh voice or its shining suggestion of fishes and ships. The fact is that until I…

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Wait

The beast of night, lost in silence. In its eyes, an unnamed sea. The boy’s breath settles among moss The compass sleeps inside the backpack. We sit side by side, a footnote to the forest, waiting for a shooting star to point the way to…

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Room

The window hold the chill outside, Muted red and gray-blue laze upon the bed, clinging to the warmth she left behind. Books bear the weight of her thoughts, growing in every direction. The orange cat kneads silence into a ball, and buries it deep inside…

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