days of stone

Tag: Amazon

  • She Named the Stars Out Loud

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    We pulled off somewherepast the edge of signal,dust curling like smokebehind the tyres. She climbed the bonnet barefoot,leaned back with a bottle of waterand a grinlike she’d stolen it from a god. Said she used to bean astrologer.Said Orion was her first crushand she still wrote him letterswhen it rained. I told her I didn’t…

  • White Dwarf, Fading

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    It was once the centre of things—a sun that gave names to shadows,that warmed the bones of planetsand made time possible. Now it glowslike memory does—dim,but refusing to go out. There is no explosion.No final flare.Only the slow retreatof lightinto ash. It will cool for billions of years.Long after the Earth forgets itself,long after we’ve…

  • New chapbook on Amazon

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    Ryan Stone
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    I’m excited to announce that my new chapbook is published and available for kindle on Amazon. Paperback to be released shortly. Book overview  Things That Shouldn’t Be Beautiful (But Are)Poems by Ryan Stone A jellyfish that never dies.A swan that stays after love is gone.A beetle with mirrors for eyes.This quietly astonishing collection brings together…