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Arden Falls

Arden Falls

Spilled Light

Ash in the day’s early breath,

Jan 4, 2023

Spilled Light

Jan 4, 2023

Arden Falls

Shapes

I’m losing track. How many times Have I explained to you?

Dec 21, 2022

Shapes

Dec 21, 2022

Arden Falls

Used, to Anything

The cicada twists, humming and breaking leaves. Not falling, not flying, jittering like driving too fast down a neighborhood street. It has…

Dec 17, 2022

Used, to Anything

Dec 17, 2022

Arden Falls
in
the Cafe

Spoken Static

Bite the wire that makes me vibrate Ringing static leaves me numb Better than the maw Breathless, frigid, old.

Nov 23, 2019

Spoken Static

Nov 23, 2019

Arden Falls
in
The Junction

Flicker Flight Part 05

The drive home is uneventful, but my mind swirls with a million thoughts, overlapping and stacking over each other until they threaten to…

Nov 16, 2019

Flicker Flight Part 05

Nov 16, 2019

Arden Falls
in
The Junction

Flicker Flight Part 04

I try to avoid going to my parents’ house as much as I can. It’s not home to me now, and if it has ever been, memories of a time when I…

Oct 28, 2019

Flicker Flight Part 04

Oct 28, 2019

Arden Falls
in
The Junction

Flicker Flight Part 03

My office building greets me as it does every day. I have always thought the architect could have put some effort into making it look less…

Oct 15, 2019

Flicker Flight Part 03

Oct 15, 2019

Arden Falls

I started this piece under the title “What it Means to be Me” and immediately felt the weight of…

Depression and anxiety have been a part of my life for as long as I can remember, masquerading as intrusive mental images I blamed on an…

Oct 11, 2019

I started this piece under the title “What it Means to be Me” and immediately felt the weight of…

Oct 11, 2019

Arden Falls
in
The Junction

Flicker Flight Part 02

I sit there much longer than it seems; I have to stop looking through the photos because it’s too dark to see with the sun setting. I…

Oct 5, 2019

Flicker Flight Part 02

Oct 5, 2019

Arden Falls
in
The Junction

Flicker Flight 01

My father died the day I was born. I don’t believe in ghosts or anything, but I think I could adjust to the idea pretty quickly; that’s…

Sep 28, 2019

Flicker Flight 01

Sep 28, 2019

Arden Falls

Arden Falls

Author of poetry and short fiction and compulsive day-dreamer. Get in touch with me at ardenfallswrites@gmail.com. They/them.

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