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for all the fathers who show up

Jun 16, 2025

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The house didn’t fallwhen they left.The kettle still boils,the dog still waitsfor your voice in the morning. Time to forgetthe way you bent to fitwhat was never built for you. The sky hasn’t stoppedits slow turning.Magpies still sing.You breathe.Something holds. This isn’t the end.It never is.The right onewon’t ask you to shrink.What stayswill staywithout being…

Obon Rain

Jun 4, 2025

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Ryan Stone

in Poetry

for the ones who still wait The rain begins slowly—drummingon stone markers. I light a stick of incense.It curlslike something trying to stay. Even the cicadashave fallen quiet. A child’s sandaldriftsdown the flooded path. Ryan Stone

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