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145 · Oct 2020
The Depths
Brian Yule Oct 2020
Vacant mirror
Arid pen
Sallow silence

Naked page
Swallowed minutes from
Borrowed hours

Cave's former roar
Sunken stream
Struck dumb

Wallow in
Parched flow
As hollow grows

Sin hallow
Burrow deeper
Into ashes

Seeking signs
Of dew saved
From the drought
145 · Apr 2020
Seismonasty
Brian Yule Apr 2020
Relic of past aches
Gaze-blunted conversation
Brushed touch-me-not folds
141 · Sep 2020
Sheltered
Brian Yule Sep 2020
Becalmed
Suspended in brackish undulations
Dunes shield this lagoon speculation
From seething currents
136 · Mar 2019
Causal Chain
Brian Yule Mar 2019
Hoist the flags

Whose side are you on

A feather gift for cowards

This most costly cooperation

Still buries boys

In hastily dug holes

Far from home
134 · Oct 2020
Candour
Brian Yule Oct 2020
& then
Finally knowing itself
Candour rode naked
Unwrapped in a splendour
Born in shade
Freed finally from the clamour
Of clinging on
This raw dark undappled
A ripe fruit
Plucked from empty branches
After the fall
130 · Feb 2020
A Little Quiet
Brian Yule Feb 2020
When I say
You’re too kind
I mean it
The dull stabs
Of your best intentions
Only stir the wound
Please
Leave me to grieve
These woollen words you weave
To soften woe
Do not deceive
My threadbare wits
That they are whole
No peace for me maybe
But…please
A little quiet
122 · Oct 2020
Nature Watch
Brian Yule Oct 2020
Hide-witnessed otters
Pups frolicking on ice slides
Grace note bursts silence
121 · Mar 2020
Stirring
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Accepting the lack
Found comfort in ordering
Stirring the tea leaves
120 · Mar 2020
Quilting
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Quilting words to pad
This unfathomable ache
Wrap me up hollow
119 · Mar 2019
Revelations
Brian Yule Mar 2019
You know
That moment
When they say
I don't care about all of that
That's in the past
It's us now
& you feel
Uncertain
& full of hope
115 · Mar 2019
5er #5: Totally Inert
Brian Yule Mar 2019
Nat'ral
Like the old days
Green, not one chemical
Saw it on my social media feed
Ancestral
109 · Sep 2020
Drosera
Brian Yule Sep 2020
Fragrant tinted lure
Saccharine glistening sundew snare
Cruel allure to rule
107 · Aug 2020
Jade
Brian Yule Aug 2020
Pupils dilating
The flecks of jade in your eyes
Trace my torso, bound
106 · Oct 2020
Meadowfoam
Brian Yule Oct 2020
Immersed in meadowfoam nectar
Deputised to cross the threshold
Feaster feeds a future
104 · Mar 2020
Current
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Horizon spits a whisper
Greens & blues that twine & then meander
Land's answer to the intimacy of flow
To find paths unhindered
From hinterland to estuary's reply
Fresh leaping, salt undertow
Cry of seagulls
Tidal glow
Gravity's evergreedy show
94 · Sep 2020
Veritas
Brian Yule Sep 2020
With intermittent vision tinted sepia
Apeborn questions exerting rigid apertures
Hinted insights rose unfurling thorns
Reason never deeply touching you
How incrementally are humans
Ever so defective
Instruments of
Truth
93 · Mar 2020
Odyssey's End
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Long quest's goal fulfilled
Cast loose beneath oak's dapple
To core & pare fruit
91 · Mar 2020
Change
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Change is
An empty atlas
All steps
Shall fall on ****** earth
Chasing silhouettes
Urgent births
Future regrets
As yet unscripted epithets
The bold walk blind
A river unfolding
Toward the see
A tale told
In the edit
82 · Nov 2020
Debride
Brian Yule Nov 2020
Quilting words to pad
This unfathomable ache
Wrap me up hollow
69 · Jul 2020
Butterfly
Brian Yule Jul 2020
Blossom mothered vibrance leaps
Urgent as life escaping
Transience raging in pursuit
Transfixed in nectar's temptation
Each passing day ignites
Rites of entwining rhythms
Fluttering slowly relents
Longing after
Youth
68 · Mar 2020
Winter, Flanders
Brian Yule Mar 2020
Nightfall brings respite
To drag wounded from corpse fields
First snowdrops in bloom

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