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In fact, I am one who trusts what I write who writes not because I must but because I am

listening to whispers

for if this were drudgery I'd be defeated but I am still enthralled with the possibility

of a single line of prose or poem becoming the star that shoots across the sky and lands like a dart deep in my heart

— for Tellio

One single raindrop breaking free from the sky

with only gravity as traveling companion

free

a lonely song until the dirt conductor raises a baton

and carries it along

With toes on the edge of the precipice, the landscape's falling;

each stone dropping - another idea, calling

for #mastoprompt

Some fall, and may hail, too; come to thunderstorms with clouds, then sun, today

for Algot, a haiku reverso

Some of these hours bring a lonesome sense of no one else around but a voice, speaking whispers inside the heart

for #mastoprompt

Knotted branches bind us closer - the ties of trees with story threads like veins in a leaf, changing

I sing to the ghosts of her - the silent moments of her, for this Maple remains rooted in time and place, fading

for #mastoprompt

jawin' and cursin' - the weight of the world strains the back of every one of these beasts of burden

for #mastoprompt

Something about the rain

the way the world tumbles and falls on us again

on and on and on and on and on and on

the flock flew

a bird's life is a wonder of pure phenomenon

for #mastoprompt

bending but never breaking

the lithe stem of grass

a swerve of a punctuation mark

dances in the wind

for #mastoprompt