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10

Two figures represent 10. the crab that walks sideways …
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Blueprint

Bulbs rustle in paper bags, pale corns, rhizomes, tubers to breathe new life into a barren corporate patch. Husks, tipped with green shoots, become...
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A man with no peer

A man with no peer At my fontanel reverberates a yell that Kali is an angel not a man, mortal sent with a mission as a man common to demonstrate for...
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Hotel Mediterraneo

Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Newsflash: Update

Usually I contribute a little bit of fun to the Abc site, but this time I ask you to consider some serious questions. Virologists have often made the...
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Great Horton Swan Song

From high up upon their sacred hill. They’ve sat watching me twist mad, thin and ill. Because I’ve felt horrors that they’ll never conceive. Away I...
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K is for Kings and Knapweed

gifts for fraught future brought - gold, frankinsence and myrrh purple crown much bee-sought turned finch seedhead sceptre

J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)

bright sound from high, cold night of promise drawing near dusk; like roofs' slates took flight with joyous jew's harps' cheer

Playlist: For a Road Trip in Spring

A playlist that takes me back to my youth.
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9

… We ring 9, then 9 again, and 9 once more on a phone if there is a …
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THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER - Chorkie's Discourses (first part)

THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER Of the Three Metamorphoses ‘I name you three metamorphoses of the miniature teddy bear: how a mass-produced toy shall...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon

Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Santa in Therapy

Santa lets loose in the psychiatrist's office.
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8

8 legs on a spider – 4 on each side (4 and 4 makes 8); 8 tentacles on an octopus (like arms) An octagon is a flat shape with 8 straight sides ‘octo’...
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The Last Room

Don't take room 217, they told me But that was the last one left 'First right, then wrong ', said the receptionist. 'Don't you mean left?' , I said...

Stress

The demon called stress skulks in the darkness of our minds behind the backlogs and bulk of unfinished work left and unsigned 'til the following day...
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Upperkirkgate, Sunday

Evidently drunk on Life, the bottled kind, a streetcorner Pavarotti remixes arias, Oblivious to the masses, shopping blind, hands held high, his Ave...
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Strange Advent

I first posted this work on UKAuthors a year ago, in reponse to the deowning of a young child in the British Channel. Sadly, nothing has changed since then. (Image is courtesy of Roland My from Pixabay)
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I is for Icing and Ivy

concealing sweetness spreads white, on all made before lushly sheltering birds' first food in next year's store

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