Thursday, April 28, 2022

Enjoy a cup of coffee

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  A man is out cold on the footpath; arms, legs splayed limp as shirt-sleeves; fly open, penis bare; unkempt, ill-fitting clothes, dirt...
Sunday, April 24, 2022

Holy Well

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  Hope hangs from the trees, prayers dance; the sick, the love-lorn click their fingers; an enamel mug keeps watch. The sun and moon...
Friday, April 22, 2022

Reaching for my Rucksack

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 No holidays since 2019. I’m spending more and more time wanting to see new sights. I want to be dazzled again. So many places! Considering ...
Thursday, April 21, 2022

Droplets of Water

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  Droplets  along the sharp edge of a stone like a chain of headlights in December traffic, sidling onto moss greenery, streaming down ...
Sunday, April 17, 2022

Cells

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  I think myself eternal: a lineage unbroken since the first cell , carried on ward in the infinity of cells. I think myself ...
Wednesday, April 13, 2022

Red Trawler, Green Trawler

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  (The shocking truth of children 'sold' by nuns from Ireland to the US as portrayed in the film Philomena is the subject of this po...
Monday, April 11, 2022

Precious As Lives Should Be

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  B ivalve shells encasing li ves: magnificent l ockets r ibbed and banded, c orrugated and toothed shut. Sublime in design...
Tuesday, April 5, 2022

Logical Chicken

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  then featherless chickens saving the industry the cost of plucking legless chickens saving the industry the cost of their removal ...
Monday, April 4, 2022

Sunlight through the Trees

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  Coins of sunlight falling from the trees. Seeing, like fish see them, gyrating vesicles of air; hearing their tintinnabulation...
Saturday, April 2, 2022

She Moves

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She moves like water; her dress a pool of sky fill ing my bucket eyes. I swim in currents of her hair; she does not know. T o...
Thursday, March 31, 2022

A Memory of my Father

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    Shaft of sunlight,   reflection off a million specks   of dust,   fe e d ing his face with lines and grace  – s oft light paints o...
Tuesday, March 29, 2022

Soil

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  There is just a suggestion of mountainous terrain across the bay; when, in the haze, they disappear so do I ; b ut a starling on the a...

City Lives

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They shout into space, answer each other like whales across great haunted distances; they never meet, only sound waves ever meet.     Alone ...
Thursday, March 24, 2022

Days of our Lives

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 o we’d have a coffee, maybe two, then off into town by the side streets, looking for red-brick houses with lilac doors and yellow window fr...
Tuesday, March 22, 2022

Friendship it Seems

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  Arms thrown open; friendship it seems; doubt it. Too close to that face, the full of your eyes: a prison.