PS Conway

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i think of our love
as momentary stitchings
subtle weaves
in fate’s great tapestry

our gossamer kisses –
a dance with Arachne
trapped by beauty
knowing our worth

i feel each moment
miniscule midst the story of gods
yet a colorful yarn
in a corner of their tears
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crawl into bed
to the blood warmth of slumber
soft breath
in slow wightened sighs

no questions needed
no lies in dreams
behind riverstone eyes
that see beyond the poisons

a kiss upon a pouty lip
tender and aquiver
with spectral vengeful words

the rest is silence
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barren spaces
that once coddled a soul
long departed
by whispers
chasing a restless god

into a moonlit lacuna
of loon song

where the first wildflowers
learned their scent
from the reeds
then dreamed of bloom
again.
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i have lost you, my love,

somewhere in the guile
of a nightingale’s song,

where will-o’-the-wisps
flit-n-fill the gathering dark,

where the sacred well summons,
seek me, seek me…

its death-plumbed depths
full of Stygian echoes

and a reflected crescent moon.
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Thanks, my friend 🙏🏻🙏🏻

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spirit hand guide me
glide beside me
show me the secrets of Ouija

i miss her
i need to know so much more
than YES or NO

remind her of warmth
when the darkness aches
touch the planchette
feel my livingness
my warmth

my ever
unforgetting
love
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our bedroom was once
a sanctuary
from things that claw forth
from shadows

you were
the child of lightning,
cleansing the darkest corners,
red-eyed with hate,
each an ache
of rage and jealousy

and when the last thunderclap
consumed you,
i subsumed in their ranks
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grappling with days
trapped in time’s tendrils
we tangled prey
await its venomous kiss

seeking the stability of form
bolstered by bones
my blood coursing
so dense
so insistent

finding hope fatuous
midst the heat of entropy
an antidote
to quiet my craven mind
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i linger longer than i should
mists roll like tide
smothering memory
as steady as
its gray endless sea

your voice once there
singing upon the wind
my name a song
now all stays silent

and each day dawns paler
the sun’s warmth a language
a lyric
seabound and empty
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collect me,
here in the field
of the dead.

salvage what you can
of me; mutilated,
face unrecognizable,
eyes opaque
unseeing

the crows mock us.

their laughter holding
such secrets
man continues to forget:

blood begets blood;
and its story
is ever so amusing.
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i am the ripened wine
derived from your vine,
deep in loam,
your consecrated terroir.

my supple bruised hue
anoints your lips,
and you wince at my staining

for the taste of thorns
a crown may never forget,
recalling wounds
that no bottle,
no cork can improve.
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i hate to get so riled,
but my emotions,
waves of fear,
can’t separate from
the concept of the mind

two distinct things
so deeply intertwined
a ghost in the machine

i feel weak
and if i’m being honest,
a bit sick to my stomach
over the idea of
seeing you so near.
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sometimes endings
create new beginnings

that takeoff tension
when a plane departs earth

the logic of knowing death bides
but your heart races, recalcitrant
with the thrill of flight

and life’s everyday pain
fades

seen in contrails
by envious observers far below
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the Holly King
once told me,
beware the free folk
they’re in service
to the oak.

a snowflake melted
upon my cheek
slow as a tear at solstice

he glowered deep,
there is no soul
only meat
and blood
and bone

salvation is in
what you take and
what you try to keep.
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vile thoughts
like maggots in my brain
headlight on a train
a migraine arrives
to quiet the writhe inside
me that says

go
do it now
it must be so

summon the shadows
like line-dried linens
more scent than form
chloroform vapors
cover my ears
stifle their screaming
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nestle down here
in the crook of my arm,
release your fear
that smothers love’s beckon,

bask with me
in window-lit apricity,

let my lips
soothe your worry away,
the day is waning
soft, like a prayer

in a sunset graveyard,
buried in snow.
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Thank you 🥂🙏🏻

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i pursue you into
a sea of grass
each tipped tendril
warns me to turn back

but your laughter
inveigles me so
& fireflies chase
like comet tails flow

the music in a scent
all of me spent
in youthful vanity
lost in the thrum
of your wake

drowned in
a sea of grass
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you played that same etude
each night before bed;

it made my head split in two,
each note stabbed my eyes,

you’d summoned pain
into the inner sanctum of our room,

an obfuscated mood,
atonal to slumber,

a cracked chord pressed flat
by the pall that lay upon me.
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Thanks so much 🩶🙏🏻🥂

Thank you 🙏🏻

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hunting the white stag
eludes me in snow

final arrow nocked
at the ready
quiver empty

breath hovers like cloud
settles like mist
‘round the edges of hoof prints

scent of blizzard
gray clouds in the north.
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in the garden
of the seven silver roses,
the soil sparkled like gypsum.

the whippoorwills summoned
the moon from her
whipstitched wane,

eager to please the gardener
whose gloves wore
unbearable signs of wear,

holes where silver seeds
could never find purchase.
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mornings are hardest -
that moment
when you return to here,
where here is almost now,
& now bleeds its ache.

i dwell on the cusp
of recalling

where sunlight is soft -
that place
when sad is almost then,
where then is never there,
& there is not our destination.
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Thanks! 💙🍷

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stray creatures call out
beneath the indifference
of a midnight sky.

i ask you for your hand
and find myself grasping
only my own, cold
and trembling.

starlight never cared,
its mantle shaded nothing,
the ruse repeats itself
until strangled
by the dawn.
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open casket wake
on Thursday night
you died watching
snow falling
a world kept on ice

cars on highways
so cold, windows foggy
we oarsmen row
blow pale contrails
like dust
begging sleep

a car slips on black ice
spins slo-mo
coins cover your eyes
circle
upon circle
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the wedding cake molders
i hide in the corners
wanting to taste its edges

you search for me
but tears cloud your sight
fills it with night
and stars falling from grace

i want to taste its edges
rivulets of sweet icing
drizzling down my chin

again
each time. again
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it was a Good Friday
when the air split, and
the river surged.

i had lost my way
some time before
in the din of a rooster crowing.

the current
carried a rowboat past me,
unmoored, spinning in
the tumult -

such a battered thing,
rudderless,
and cast to ruin.
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horseflies feed on meat
deep in the clover glen
magpies bicker over bones

we bend, we go home

all the muddy shiny rings
a greedy bird craves
wait to be claimed today

we blend, we go home

a collector must gather
take flight to the sky
proud and full of shine
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#poetry #vss365