Saturday, February 25, 2023

Form Haze of Childhood

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  From haze of childhood you grew into yourself, defined and definite, glad to be out of it. Glad to be away, living within your ow...

God Creates Barnesmore in a Week

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 Monday was murky, the house was all percussion with rain; God made the mountains and hills, but minimally: mere suggestions of fir, fern, s...
Friday, February 24, 2023

Parasite Man on Mother Earth

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 We are naturally quick to deal with parasites be they lethal or not; we don't like them. Our own parasitic nature seems to bother us le...
Saturday, February 18, 2023

AI: Have your poems critiqued in seconds?

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OpenAI released ChatGPT in Nov 2022; it is  a jaw-dropping language tool that really will make a colossal differance, particularly in the ed...
Friday, February 17, 2023

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  A field yesterday, blank under snow today. A page to draw on.
Monday, February 13, 2023

Impression

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  In the depths of trees, beyond the reach of the sun, fish are darting through the torpor of beer-brown afternoons. Below, in the l...
Monday, February 6, 2023

Present Day Slavery: Forced Labour

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My bones a hoist, I carry stones; harness over my skull, legs levers flexing extending all day everyday fourteen hours in each, run...
Saturday, February 4, 2023

Away

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  I’m in bed, hearing my parents’ footsteps on the landing. then in my room. They have not come to tuck me in but, together, pass t...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

Days

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  Days are the harvest of time. Each a segment of film-strip lit with its own light and, for all the weight that fills them,  thy...
Monday, January 16, 2023

The Hands That

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  In death it’s often the hands cranked square immobile hold the eye; held solid that dead soul. Ah, the hands that could catch...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

The Photograph

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  My father in a beam of sunlight from the kitchen window, the rest of the room a dim background; hands extended, bending down to his...
Monday, January 9, 2023

Starry Night

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  The intricate weave of their rhythms glint and ripple glitter and flow sometimes loud sometimes low I sit through the...
Tuesday, January 3, 2023

Cigar Smoke

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  Outside, in dim night light, smoking a Christmas cigar, looking along the front wall, the angle it makes with the eaves, the dark trian...
Friday, December 30, 2022

A Transparent Eyeball

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  “ I become a transparent eyeball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part of God.”  ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

Man in Man

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  Inside himself, that’s the silence. He lived away from us, from our view; a complete union of person and soul; an isolati...