First poetic crowdsourced artifact of 2026. (Patreon)
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This morning, the first day of 2026, I left my family behind in the dawn hours and went down to the water to send off to sea the ash-pile of wishes and nightmares that the children had burned to a quiet crisp at midnight.
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At around 7:30am NZ time I went live for the patrons - for whoever happened to be there, online, to witness the moment - and as I wandered into the ephemeral sea, Amanda WouldGo grabbed this screenshot.
I was going to delete the entire live - and I did - but the fact that she grabbed and sent me this perfect little artifact is the most beautiful new poem of the new story of the new year.
Here I go again, into the wild, into the voyage, with my community there to catch the spark.
2026, I already love you.
The ash of 2025 has been dispersed all through the ocean now, lost to time.
She’s everywhere.
We begin again.
I’ll see you all soon.
I am only gradually starting to understand how important all 24,000 of you are to me. And I thought I already knew.
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