Hole In The Hedgerow

Poetry, Stories, and Other Musings With Spilt Ink

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February 23, 2026

In Nature

Birds never talk to me But I listen to them sing As they sing on without me And bugs On me they don’t even know I’m there Lost in their own little worlds on me As they live in them without me And the grass It springs back to hide any trace of my steps… Continue reading

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February 6, 2026

Rustling Applause

A song I’ll only hear once It waves through the air in time As its vibrations shake the leaves They wave to me And give their rustling applause As it fades The sound drifts away through the air To the edges of the worlds night Where its soul drifts into the black forever after Lost… Continue reading

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January 25, 2026

Above a City Night

The rain falls beneath the light To gather under the lamps glow I climbed above the city night To watch the lamplit water flow Through the warm lit fog Like a golden river below Flickering down the streets From shadow to yellow to shadow Caught out with the rain awake in the night I climbed… Continue reading

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January 20, 2026

Shallow

What we have is shallow Like ice skating You asked if the sheets are clean Funny how others asked the same They’re like snow from weeks ago With dirt and footprints And snow angels from someone else’s body Chalk around it Like a crime scene Outlining the things I’ve done Dirty bedsheets from days ago… Continue reading

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January 16, 2026

Chasing Whiskey

Drinking is the least destructive thing I could be doing Of the things I could be doing Drinking is the best Those things I shouldn’t do How I chase them in the night So raise my glass and keep toasting To the chains that drown me down Though I could be doing less Of the… Continue reading

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December 20, 2025

Stitched

My heart a quilt of everyone I’ve ever lovedTattered, torn, and stitchedAnd you my mistress of sorrowWith your cornerWho I’d half jokingly propose toSooner than my next heartbeatWhen I wasn’t who I should beWith the taste of beer on my breathCigarette smoke on my clothesSo you could be the proof of my lifeWhere my stories… Continue reading

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November 3, 2025

Jaded

Brush the jade offWith a deep breathAnd with earnest sighsStand tall in my new fever dreamWith tired squinting eyes Casted adrift with no anchorsLost myself bobbing on the wavesWith the lows and the highs Drifting sinking shipTo a splintered wreckA passenger or victim of the currentWashed up flotsom speck And now, a new shoreCovered in… Continue reading

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October 14, 2025

Reflected

My world reflectedAnd sinking away in twinkling black pools.My time passingCurved and in baby blue.How your smiles move into your eyes,And by how you see out of them.You looking up,Me looking down.My little life.How I disappear and fade into you.How I feel smaller as my river approaches the ocean,I’m spread out along the shores,Like a… Continue reading

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October 1, 2025

Baobob

Baobob shadows on the horizon,Upside down trees with their heads in the sand,Wide legs reaching for the Sahelian sun,Fruit bobbing like ornaments from the feet.The sun laying down for the night behind them to sleep.Huge sky, touching every corner of the worlds curves,The stars coming through that darkening blanket that lays over it all.Reminding me,… Continue reading

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September 27, 2025

Morning Run

I need to run to catch my breathThin air keeps the demons quietDistance keeps them at bayHeart pitter patteringPounding awayA commerce of bloodWith every beatA hundred thousand milesFrom my heart to my feetDefiant legs full of acidTense, then looseEver falling forwardCatching up with themselvesTurning overRolling the earth beneath meGalloping togetherChasing myselfAt my most primalJaw opens… Continue reading

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