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of chimes
"of Chimes"
...for PatriciaJJ
Before dawn breaks on flickering screens,
your spirit chimes clear as hand-forged bells—
I trace each dew-laced lyric unbound,
mapping hope through eucalyptus-scented mists.
Your words—gentle notations for the music we are—
unfurl lantern-like across my parched imaginings;
each verse a pilgrim in restless mallee heat,
seeking solace in the hush of shared belief.
So here’s my stubby torch in our analogue dawn,
an ember swung between pixel haze and paper grain,
where your whispered mantras find harbour,
and Cooee back from every silent horizon.
To PatriciaJJ, whose chimes awaken the heart—
may our mapped constellations of song
guide every lost echo home.
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