Broken Wings

She had not consulted a map. Maps implied return.
Maren had driven through the small hours with the particular deliberateness of someone who has made a decision and is moving inside it...

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The Hare in April

/ poems

Spring in the Meadow

He sits with the stillness of something that knows
the meadow is watching — the ryegrass, the rooks,
the red campion trembling where cold morning goes
to warm itself slowly...

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Siblings

/ thoughts

That Summer Afternoon

Eliza stands at the water's edge, her feet bare against the sand that holds the day's accumulated heat. The sun is lowering now, its light turned honey-thick, and she watches h...

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The last Journey

The rain had been falling for three days without reprieve, not the soft Irish mist that Maeve had grown accustomed to in her forty-seven years, but a relentless hammering that turne...

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Seagulls

The man stood at the harbour's edge, watching the gulls work the turbulent water. His shoulders curved inward against the wind, not from cold but from something more persistent—a weariness...

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Worth the Wait

The silence had texture in the beginning. It pressed against his button eyes like a physical thing, dense and particular, shifting with the seasons that he could not see but only sens...

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