Every curious adventurer who's ever lifted backyard rocks to discover worlds beneath has to believe in the magic of the unseen, in the faith that what sleeps outside our vision remains something forever possible, even peace and love and life

for #mastoprompt

Like water on windows - these gravity-fed streams don’t ever seem to want to stop: these teardrops

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Things You Might Do With a Single Match

Ignite it, for sure, with scratching friction that scorches wood and bone and earth

or turn it into an imaginary friend, with a phosphorous head and single-footed body, dancing on the table top

or hold it up at deepest night, a firefly levitating in darkness off outstretched finger, painting ink-light on air

or place it back, gentle, into the book from which it came, where fellow stories wait at rest for the chapter to close

for #openwrite and #mastoprompt (inspired by https://www.ethicalela.com/things-you-can-do-with-an-orange/)

Take a moment to listen, first to be the heart to find yourself to then emerge from where you start

for #mastoprompt

Tracking the movements of a hawk current-gliding in summer air prompts us to want to sing for wings

for #mastoprompt

Cat’s claws sharpened on my shirt again

a pain, I can’t explain from this creature, named but untamed

for #mastoprompt

Falling stars: visible against dark, just for the dreaming; the blue-lit / bent-note ear-splitting screaming of electric guitars

for #mastoprompt

Is it just me who forgets and loses nostalgia like an old protective mitt jammed between the oven door and cabinet drawer, never remembering the burn of something that’s already happened, more than a few years before?

for #mastoprompt

On the eve of darkness, there comes light

Descending into darkness, there comes night

Amidst the starkness of these two opposite but inevitable ends,

we gather together: first as lovers, and then, as friends

for #mastoprompt

Beyond the place where summer sun kisses shadow

these stones release a gathered warmth of another passing day

Night’s cool is closing in

for #mastoprompt