Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Good-bye Subaru

I woke up to ice on my car this morning and it's too soon, right?

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Medusa

Medusa was punished for the crime of being desired & taken by a god, in the wrong place: a temple of virgins…

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A Leaf Gone Yellow

A leaf, gone yellow, flecked with dark orange & red, so perfect it arrests the eye, lands to tell the story of its brilliance…

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Calling It Good

When your professional life involves pulling weeds, you have time to think & plan, according to the sky, the first flush of geese, the dropping leaves, the front blowing in, tonight…

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Touching Stones

I’m not really interested in swimming, just interested in not dying due to some careless maneuver…

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Nearly Fatal

Do you ever derail yourself, because of what you think is being said about you?

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The Renovation

It's been a few years since I called a construction site my home…

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Raw Is Real

The few blossoms left grow brighter, as if to squeeze every last drop of summer until we cry out "Enough!" …

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Bobby’s Pass

Hard to tell what the theme of a day might end up being…

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Going Against

It's not that I go against laws, well, not really…

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Spent

The spent blooms of lady's mantle, not so great, anyway, we fret as to when to cut them…

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Glo’s Sugarbush

I'd hoped to help Glo put up her last couple cords of firewood, and I did, but throwing firewood is an inexact science ...

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Digging Ferns

I was the one with bad knees, not really first tier for expedition hiking…

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Dinner at Susan’s

I worked my day shift at the top of the valley, where the two dirt roads converge. Monarch Hill and Spring roads in Tunbridge, a neighborhood so full of character; I won't easily let it go…

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Mask or No Mask

One of my very best friends and I do not agree on current events…

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