Tag Archives: sky

For What It’s Worth

Posted on 2024-09-09 by Bartholomew Barker

I bid on the bluebirds, flitting in the old oak but my songs were rejected with dismissive wing. I bid on the sapphire sea, offering all my tears to drown but it wasn’t enough declared the Auctioneer. So I bid … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Traveling through the Dark

Posted on 2023-02-17 by Bartholomew Barker

I wonder what it’d be like to live where no blinking red lights marred the heroic night sky that never cared less (for William Stafford from whom I stole the title and the heroic sky that never cared less.)

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Fraiku: Grief

Posted on 2022-07-08 by Bartholomew Barker

Like amusement park balloonsescaping my graspyou’re lost in the sky

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