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How the Bridge is Made

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
The engineers who ruled a younger age
Had visions of a bridge of peerless span;
They set their grand designs upon the page
And called their work the greatest work of man.
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You’re It

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
The melody of love rings sweet and true:
in beats of eight we count the music out.
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prayer to the dawning light

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
brigid walks barefoot through winter snows
a lantern in her hand and flowers in her train
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to my lover

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
have you ever loved a man
whose smile was the kiss of summer
tumbling into your bed
for the first time each year?
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to my waters in winter

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
the glinting flow of autumn’s tea-dark deep
has given way to winter’s snowy white:
beneath the ice the waters softly sleep
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to my city at midsummer

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
the sweet hot air of summer softly sighs
and gentles with the evening’s fading light;
the city stretches out beneath the skies
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to my river, overflown

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
the river overran his banks this year
not softly, as he does with each spring’s flood
—but in a torrent
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to my river

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
soul of the river, they say
you dress in murk, but oh,
king of waters, i know it is not so
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loons call on the lake and i cannot answer

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
i have listened to you call to the loons on the lake
since the first time i heard that haunting birdsong
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love songs for death gods

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
by nature i am a monstrous thing
twisted, bent, and torn
an untamed wilderness of thorn and vine
grows where my humanity should be
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Two Elegiac Couplets

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
Stars all are born in a fire and a conflagration: so with us.
Your hands ache upon me.
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On Light

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
The fire seems a paltry, trembling light

Held next to you: for you are making light.
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Sonnet for Eivin

Posted on: December 29, 2025 Last updated on: December 29, 2025 Written by: Jared Toby Phillips
I loved thee in another kind of life

that time had seemed to scatter and erase:

the pain, the joys, the sorrows, and the strife

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