a handful of stones

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

A rare moment of stillness, you flop like a raggedy doll, moulding your clay body into the soft contours from which you came.

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Shanee Barraclough
Throw me to the sky

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The mildness of Spring; gentle rain, scents of crushed grass, slippery mud beneath my boots.

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Freya Pickard
Dragonscale Clippings

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

One table companion
Fell-fed femina puts out
Her cigar in left over
Hot chocolate

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Alex Damov

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

their laughter
a needle pricked
into a voodoo doll

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Virginie Colline

Bird Collides with Window

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

becoming a dark
hieroglyph
on the dimpled
blank page
of the snow

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Andrea Blythe

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

New Year sunshine
a wisp of cloud
a dragon?

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Gillena Fox
Lunch Break

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Thu, 09 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

snow, layers of pale pastel, gossamer folds of fabric flutterig in the wind as the older faceless woman hunched over on this muted of color dawn, first icy snow that sticks to where her brown scuffed tarnished lived-in boots trod.

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Emma's Orchard

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

A crescent of spilt dark coffee on a white saucer, the crumbled edge of a digestive biscuit, and the clink of a tea-spoon meeting the edge of the cup.

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Kaspalita
another small stone

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:29:00 +0000

The soil is dry. I empty the dregs of tea into the bathroom sink and fill the mug with water. I carry it into the office. I pour water into the pot, where it sinks down towards the roots. The plant drinks. What ordinary miracles.

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Fiona Robyn
a small stone

Funeral Wear (Neglected)

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

badly fitted suits and stale shirts
stained with nicotine smelling
faintly of moss

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James Alden

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

panicked barks
inside a locked car
the tow truck operator
bites her lip

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Lucas Stensland

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Chive blades stretch upwards,
a golden-winged butterfly
smells their spicy scents

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Claudia Messelodi

write a small stone today (& hurrays & thankyous)

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:44:00 +0000

in honour of this year's River of Stones, rather than reading a small stone today I'd like you to write one and post it here. here's our Hurrays & Thankyous post with links to all our marvellous guest bloggers.

while I'm at it, a huge thank you to all the contributors and readers of a handful of stones over the years. you rock. (hee hee)

_/\_ (deep bow)

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

tea
from a broken bag
floating on top

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Robert Quiggle III

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

snow storm— the pregnant bear remains calm * P K Padhy

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

mahjong
cloudburst on a tin roof
then
fitful
drips

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James Newton

Mudlark

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

The shore crumbles.
Beer caps spring up
like geysers. A thousand
metal detectors chirp.

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Christian Ward

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

a mesh sack
of garlic, one bulb broken
where it's open

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Robert Quiggle III

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

Birds
sing in circles
as the light dances

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Kylie Dinning
Pausing to pick up small stones

break out

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

She glares at the bathroom tiles,
all identical, like her days.
She runs out,
pees in the backyard.

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Debbi Antebi

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

“Crazy Daisies” – in hues of tangerine, saffron, carnelian and palest jade; a grocery-store bouquet of flowers aptly named she has to agree, given her state of mind from time to time, graces their kitchen table this week.

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S. E. Ingraham

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

vacuum bar rail
all words-sucked smoke rings into the light above

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Steve Myers
Broken Bats

reading to my children

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

my voice catches and tears escape
"mom stop!" they plead
and i remember
the terror of my mother's tears

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lara simmon

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

making a desperate bid
for freedom via a leaky faucet

tap water.

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Molly Guy

Nightmares hiccup explanations

noreply@blogger.com (Fiona Robyn) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 06:00:00 +0000

of what you're doing here,
and why don't you leave?

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Lee Sittler