Hole In The Hedgerow

Poetry, Stories, and Other Musings With Spilt Ink

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May 4, 2026

People Watching

I want to sit on a park bench with you Watch the birds and people watch Make up stories Where they’re coming from and going to Take turns first me and then you In the morning remind me to wear sunscreen and a jacket Fix my coller Brush the dust off my shoulders as I… Continue reading

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April 30, 2026

A Spark or an Ember

I’m tired of new beginnings But I’d rather a spark to an ember That fleeting unsettled winking light Dancing in the air as it burns away with the wind Like a rocket running out of fuel reaching for the sky As it drifts reaching into the night With hopes of dry leaves in the trees… Continue reading

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April 8, 2026

Violins Through the Night

The time the crickets come out Chirping in the dark from somewhere unseen Their violin legs ring out of the shadows Then cicadas call and the frogs they chirp The birds will sing come morning just before light In the dark the sounds they shoutCalling out to the night The fireflies with their lighthouse beacons… Continue reading

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March 26, 2026

The Bees Hide

Flowers walking around And dancing birds In a garden That’s all any of us are Love isn’t alive or dead But like trees asleep in the winter And romance fills the air Not alive or dead But caught out in an early spring rain Cold and wet and dulled by the passing grey clouds Waiting… Continue reading

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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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