Tag: departure
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Leaving Violet Town
The boy sits alone while the carriage fills around him. It’s a V-line, a long haul, thundering into morning. Barely legible, a chipped sign fades and Violet Town falls away. He retreats to a paperback kingdom, while oblivious wheels devour miles. Sometimes his eyes rise to watch the landscape grind from here to there. Halogen…
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Drinking the Dawn
A young elephant can die of a broken heart should his mother leave. I was an elephant once just for a time. Then I stood up, tusk and trunk, like she taught me – stepped onto the prairie; dry eyes drinking the dawn. Ryan Stone
