Kristina Stykos Kristina Stykos

Not Optimal

It began to hail mid-afternoon, tiny ice chunks bouncing off the truck bed, but still no real deluge, so I continued working…

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Footprints

The woods roads are clogged with debris, and so the mind walks its rounds upon what has fallen away…

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Sacred Soil

Entering the village at twilight, I noticed an abnormal number of cars around the green, and muffled groups of oddly garbed pedestrians,both small & large, weaving and bobbing, at road's edge…

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Crash

"What's that?" she says, and I stop my digging, trying to filter out the balmy breeze, as I strain to hear…

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The Blind

I awake during the first snow, opening my eyes at dawn to white sludge on my skylight…

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Not Stopping

Tammy showed up with her tractor about noon, roaring up the slope, with a bucket ready to work...

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Unexpected Danger

There's a detour on the main river road, so finding my way home after a trip to town offers up choices, and since one of my tires is compromised...

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4 x 4

So we drop out of the sky & spring into life...

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Cloudy & Cool

The day was cloudy & cool: a respite from recent sweat shop conditions not necessarily normal for late September, but not unheard of…

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Where She Took Me

If you could pick any place besides your usual, to have a beer, and sit in chairs & watch the moon rise, it would be this...

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Late Flowers

The love of flowering, in all its phases, is a miracle I feel honored to behold...

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Build

Many a summer cookout has been caught mid-swing this August, in dollops of rain...

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Winding Down

One more sunny day predicted before the upward swing of a hurricane along the coast moves in...

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Cairns

He took me to his river spot, just before the Festival of Fools…

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Hidden Ridge

Turning the sharp, steep left onto Hidden Ridge Rd., a deja vu began to creep its way into my consciousness & I won't recount all the gory details here, but I had been there before, either in a dream or as another me…

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Go Home

“I like symmetry,” she said…

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