days of stone

Tag: sadness

  • Last Flight

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    Ryan Stone
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    The slender-billed curlew has officially been declared extinct by the IUCN — the first bird in history to vanish across three continents: Europe, Africa, and Asia. Once a graceful traveller between seasons, it’s now a silence stretching from marsh to sky. Some songs end where the wind begins.

  • First Snow, Seollal

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    Ryan Stone
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  • After the Rain

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    Ryan Stone
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    some daysgetting up is enough.feet on cold tiles,kettle humming,a clean shirt pulled over last night’s ache. you don’t have to shine.not today.just breathe.just be. let the storm pass without explanation.let the sky rinse itself clean. there’s no deadlinefor feeling okay,only weather,moving through. and when it does,when the clouds crack openand a thread of light finds…