Hole In The Hedgerow

Poetry, Stories, and Other Musings With Spilt Ink

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May 5, 2025

San Francisco Skyline

Tumble weed blown west,Like a beeswing in the wind.Thinking of the loss of my other lives with each mile,All the what ifs and maybes I left behind me.Mourning my youth with every passing day.This new frightening budding malaise that besieges me.Closing chapters, burning bridges,Dropping the curtain, for better or worse.Watching sunsets turn to black.Now, staring… Continue reading

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November 9, 2024

Milkweed

A safe home for the Monarch caterpillars Before they grow their orange and black wings And fly thousands of miles away Continue reading

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June 8, 2024

Different Handwriting

We go for walks when it rains and run when it storms. We still stay up all night by accident, and watch the sunrise together. Continue reading

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June 2, 2024

Flotsam

Am I just this fleeting speck of flotsam? Continue reading

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May 9, 2024

Missed Connection

You are the real hopeless romantics, With emphasis on the hopelessness, Continue reading

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April 15, 2024

What am I Supposed to Be?

You aren’t supposed to be anything. You’re supposed to be an upright ape, Foraging for berries somewhere in the Sahel. Continue reading

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April 11, 2024

Eclipsed

Isn’t it funny, How the sun makes my day Everyday? Continue reading

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March 31, 2024

Joanies Café

No wonder the place went out of business, Never saw anyone that came pay. Even the cats got free room and board, Joanie had a love for any stray, Continue reading

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March 28, 2024

The Destiny of My Poems

I hide them by mistake, In pages of journals, and in the margins of books, Or I leave them etched into walls or tree trunks, Continue reading

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March 22, 2024

Crepitus

A poem from my time working as a paramedic- I’m not supposed to know the word crepitus, Let alone the sound, Or the grating feeling of it in my hands. Continue reading

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