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evening at the tide


 

Evening Benediction at the Tide

 

The tide returns in sculpted prayers

over broken shells,

etching covenant beneath gull-scarred skies.


I press my palm to driftwood—

a liturgy in grain, fibers carved by centuries

of salt and forgiveness.


Salt water heals old fractures in the stones,

and on their ancient skin I lay down my grief,

each wave a footnote of merc...

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an orchard’s lament


Morning mist drapes each blossom  
like a bride reluctant to wake.  
Petals fall in silent confession—  
memory’s hush in every drift.  

Roots hold secrets of laughter and tears,  
a debt of seasons owed to shadows.  
Soon, steel will bite bark and bloom  
and these ghosts will scatter on the wind.  




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