Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

My Exile

It was worth it just to see it, hear stories about it, and touch the water…

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Sticks and Snags

A bunch of sticks caught up on rocks, it's a lot of what you see when you're looking…

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Cliffs

You go there to jump off the cliffs…

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Hard To Believe

It's hard to believe that anything we knew about our life as it was, still is…

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No Outlet

It's almost funny, to keep encountering obstacles like relentless ocean waves…

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Secret Swimming Hole

We all have secret swimming holes. Or, if we don't, we expect to find them in the future…

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Borrowed Car

In a borrowed car, making scarce while the realtor showed my house, I impulsively took Bobbin Shop Road, to revisit a few memories…

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Little Bird

Little bird who knocks against the glass, I'm happy to not be what you're looking for, as you aim your passion towards an imagined other…

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Chain Saw Art

When I get back home after a job, I turn off the car & swing my body to the left so that my feet touch the ground…

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Kicked By A Horse

I'm not entirely sure this wild growth is normal, all bound up as it is with a late snow, followed by an oppressive heat wave…

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Over the Mountain

When I finally resettle again over the mountain, I'll miss these evening drives back home to Chelsea…

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My Shotgun

If the ladies were blackbirds, if the ladies were thrushes…

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A Noble Dog

'A noble dog, a faithful companion'. Oh, Leo. It's so easy to love a dog…

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Coltsfoot

I volunteered to do community service and was ignored, perhaps because my views on health fall into a nebulous category some might call "holistic" or something closer to what our last generation would have utilized, out of practical necessity…

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Stung By A Bee

Stung by a bee before noon, but glad for its company anyway, in a world stark with absence…

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