days of stone

Tag: poetry collection

  • The Magpie’s Warning

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    by

    Ryan Stone
    in

    Her songdraws a line in the air—a black note on blue,sharp as her eyesand just as clear. The dog halts.The wind shifts.Even the treeslean back a little. She’s not angry.Just sure.This stretch of fence,this slice of sky,the nest wedgedin that forked branch—all of it matters. She’s known loss.You can hear itin the edge of her…

  • Eclipse

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    by

    Ryan Stone
    in

    From my new poetry collection Small Rituals. Available on Amazon – Books via this link Free for Kindle Unlimited subscribers

  • White Dwarf, Fading

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    by

    Ryan Stone
    in

    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…