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End

March 19, 2021March 18, 2021 Jordan Brady

A forest at sunset. Time is nearly reset. Reality blurs. The inevitable occurs. The last thing I know Is the sun’s orange halo Pushing through the trees, And the only one who sees Is me. Continue reading End

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Crick Fairies

February 26, 2021February 26, 2021 Jordan Brady

Along the smallest streams like those that hide at the edge of your property hidden by two fields and a swell of the ground; Along the smallest streams where waist-high grass grows right up to the water and the tallest … Continue reading Crick Fairies

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Capable

January 22, 2021 Jordan Brady

This week I returned to metered poetry following a consistent rhyme scheme. I haven’t done one of these for awhile, so I wanted to exercise my poetic thinking muscles. I can normally start out with a good (to my mind) … Continue reading Capable

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Metaphor

September 25, 2020September 13, 2020 Jordan Brady

On my back I see the elite of the forest, a select scattering of eye-catching sun-dappled green on blue, supported beneath by dark, anonymous branches.  I sit up and my view scrolls to see branches merge into trunks overshadowed by … Continue reading Metaphor

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Mirror

September 4, 2020August 12, 2020 Jordan Brady

As the evening’s protective cloud cover retreats over the horizon in the face of an approaching cold front marching resolutely forward, and as the rising sun’s first rays claw their way over a bluff to offer tender comfort to their … Continue reading Mirror

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