Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Ordinary

Arm in arm with the friendship of light, at times I am not so lost, nor you…

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Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

New Owners

I waited for the next gust, holding the camera but covering it with my hat, to keep snow from penetrating its mechanisms…

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Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Woodpecker

I know basically what's required to get to the top…

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Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

The Red Shawl

I put the shawl in the box, tucking down the folds to fit and the letter over top…

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Hype

Waking in the dark, or waking at first light, the day startles us out of sleepy half-light, sometimes into gnawing fear, or, on a good day, into blissful remembrance of happy or happier times…

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False Positive

I hated that I felt a sinking feeling, when you felt hope…

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Things in the Woods

Finding things in the woods might have been my full time occupation, were it not for societal demands to grow up…

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Divinity Drive

It wasn't a great day to drive east west, or in other words, perpendicular to the mountains, with the wind gusts, the flood waters, & the fog…

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Merry Christmas

The hills are draped in a wet snow, white against the brush strokes of black trees that follow the ground, in graceful arcs of falling, impassable terrain…

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