THE STAIN THEY COULDN’T CLEAN
— joy, misfiled as survival

Joy isn’t light here.
It’s what refuses erasure.

A garnet-cut piece for Voices in Stone—
joy as defiance, residue, forbidden shine.

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THE MIDNIGHT MASS OF THE UNHALOED — where devotion is taught by touch, not faith

Forget cookies for Santa.
Some of us kneel for our holiday offering.
Some of us pray in leather.
Some of us know exactly how sacred ruin can be.

If you know, you know.

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PALEOTIDE — the body recollects water before memory

Sometimes memory returns like water —
not to drown, but to remind.
What we survive, we carry.
What we carry, shapes us.

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THE RESONANCE ROOM — when sound forgets to return

In the museum of silence, even bones remember their hymns.
Every echo learns the shape of listening — and stays.

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