A tide‑glass hour ends before the sand, but the sea keeps counting.

A ring compass points north yet circles my finger like a vow.

Even broken, a lantern shard keeps a fragment of the night inside.

North waits for no tide; it circles in gold.

A vow can light the way, even in shards.

The night ends before the sand, and the sea continues counting.



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the scrolls tilt on their shelves
        as the ground shifts,
                   glass trembling

with the weight of heirlooms and
wings—beyond the frost line:
                     a small planet turns,

its orbit tugging at the tags that rise
                         —like butterflies
   from these wrists of stone.




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seasonless

           constellation

                          silence

                                   spoken

what bleeds and what belongs?

skin still keeps secrets years on
but it also remembers
how you chose to stay—
even when the red
ran louder than you meant.

“Over‑Shoulder Weather”


I have walked the length of my sentence
long after the gates unlatched,
counting the gravel underfoot
as if each stone might still accuse.

The years have grown moss over my name,
but transgression carved into memory’s vestibule
means there is always one chair turned away,
its back carved with the shape of my absence.

I have mended the fence,
stitched the torn sleeve,
poured water into the roots I once scorched—
but the wind still carries
a syllable I cannot unhear.

So I move,
but not without the weight of glancing—
a pilgrim with a mirror in his pack,
catching the ghost of my own retreat.

And forward is a road
that keeps folding back on itself,
a loop of weathered timber and rain‑dark stone,
where even the horizon
wears my shadow like a borrowed coat,
and the door I step through
is always the same vestibule.








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