Dane BH

Joined May 2021

206 stories

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By day, I'm a cog in the nonprofit machine, and poet. By night, I'm a creature of the internet. My soul is a grumpy cat who'd rather be sleeping.

Top Story count: 21

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bedding down. Honorable Mention in The Sound of First Frost Challenge.
I cover next spring’s bulbs with a rustling blanket of this month’s fallen, thick with October rain and the last grass clippings.
By Dane BH2 months ago in Poets
the moon as refrigerator mother
in the oldest stories, we thought you left us, * waning to the wisp of a kiss blown over your shoulder, * abandoning us
By Dane BH2 months ago in Poets
the hunger moon
they summoned you in the waning days of the harvest, earth still clinging damp to the recently uprooted. * in your own right time,
By Dane BH2 months ago in Poets
before he comes back
sweep up the shards. mop the spills. redo your face. while you wait, forgive him.
By Dane BH3 months ago in Poets
the babysitter waits up. Runner-Up in Haunted Echoes Challenge.
I'm sure that noise is normal. Right? Don't old houses hold screams in their bones?
By Dane BH3 months ago in Poets
Heart On My Face
I grab my bag and keys, put on my boots, slip the straps behind my head, adjust, and give my nose a pinch to fold the wire.
By Dane BH3 months ago in Poets
Lesson of the Japanese Maple
sapless maple, no fruit, no sweet - but. leaves. beauty is reason enough.
By Dane BH4 months ago in Poets
Clench. Winner in The Road Drops Here Challenge. Top Story - September 2025.
If you'd asked me once, I'd have called them monsters because we have words for men who do this: inexplicable, inhuman,
By Dane BH4 months ago in Poets
how I want to die
when it's my time, let me burst, glorious - let us rejoice. now. for now.
By Dane BH4 months ago in Poets
when you know it's time
throw your phone in the river. steal clothes from anonymous stores. keep your hood up. don't drive a car with plates, buy the ticket in your grandmother's name,
By Dane BH5 months ago in Poets
2am in the waiting room. Runner-Up in Light Breaks Water Challenge.
I've been watching this glass for hours: bubbled around woven metal, everyone behind it safely blurred into plausible obscurity.
By Dane BH6 months ago in Poets
for the home stretch. Runner-Up in Love in 50 Words Challenge.
let's be the love that holds through the breakdown. let's be the love that's unafraid to call for help from the toilet, a love that ignores the food
By Dane BH11 months ago in Poets