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Giles's avatar

Thank you @mila @Mark Crutchfield and @Hellish Views - Harry Evans for the restacks on this piece. 🤝 💜 🤝 💜 🤝 💜

mila's avatar

man the way you’re able to work your title into a coherent frame for your entire poem is bloody brilliant

Giles's avatar

Love this compliment. It’s kinda hard work sometimes, actually.

J. Reid-Fitzgerald's avatar

Something about "sneak-smoking" pulled me all the way in. This is awesome

Giles's avatar

Thanks! 🙏

Suzie's avatar

Gorgeous gorgeous work 🖤

Giles's avatar

💜💜💜

Thank you so much. Your compliments mean a lot to me.

Suzie's avatar

🥰🖤🥰

Hellish Views - Harry Evans's avatar

I've never read anything like your work. It's extremely refreshing and very rich

Giles's avatar

Thank you for this huge compliment. That really means a lot. I’ll keep em coming!

Hellish Views - Harry Evans's avatar

I eagerly await more!

TERSA COOPER's avatar

Amazing as always! This one is beautifully haunting...all that I have left to say is wow 💔

Giles's avatar

I appreciate your kind words. Thank you, TERSA. 💜💜💜

Tiffany Leininger's avatar

You have an amazing talent for using unique words and phrases to describe a place, an object, a situation, or an action. The reader knows exactly what it is but it leaves us thinking, ‘That’s a really creative way to say that.’ It’s almost like you take parts of speech and integrate them to create something new and interesting. I love that last line; it says a lot.

Giles's avatar

You are my new best friend, @Tiffany Leininger 💜💜💜

Tiffany Leininger's avatar

lol. I accept.

The Weather Between Things's avatar

There’s something very intoxicating about your descriptions without ever feeling they try hard to reach anything. It’s almost throwaway associative but with charm and really takes you into the place. Great writing Giles 🙌

Yomna's avatar

Great writing as always, your memories seem to be your greatest poetic fuel.

Giles's avatar

💜 Thank you. Yep, they sure are good fuel.

Yomna's avatar

Painful I assume, but pain makes great art. It can be a condolence sometimes.

Deer Girl's avatar

Love this one – great imagery and movement