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WOOD FOR THE TREES (formerly Logomachy), parts 47-54

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WOOD FOR THE TREES (formerly Logomachy), parts 39-46

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Home Alone.

The leaves, all fallen deeply, how their wasted frames so remind me of home. Remembering you, pretending not to feel the loneliness of living alone...
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London’s Streets

Tattered copies of yesterday’s papers lie flapping in the gutter A tired neon light flickers swiftly, like a stutter Footsteps echo endlessly but no-...
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An I for an I

Lex Talionis: as out of date as the books which quote it. image is used in accordance/as required on its wikipedia commons page. Photographer Sven Storbeck
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Grimms72

Jaz ganders out the kitchen window and sees Pizza Face playing outside, kicking a ball against the bins. ‘Hi,’ he calls through to Angela, but it’s...
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The Ghost Queen.

A spellbinding apparition, she hovers, where tapestries of Violets purr in puny sunstrokes, dazzled droplets skid satin petals. Limed leaves hiccup...

One less spring

My house was quiet winter was all around Springs child was laughing outside I was that spring child as my years decline Looking back, then looking...
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don't look down

don’t look down— poor people who work for little— and expect little more— don’t look down— refuge bees like you and—and—and shrinking away to god...
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The Reproachful Muse

Its been a very patient sheepdog never nipping or barking just walking behind me stopping whenever I did lying down when I stopped gazing with big...
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Innocence Reclaimed (The Dementia Song)

I visit her on Tuesdays Which I’ve renamed Ma Confused Days She greets me with a smile But she never knows my name I ask her how her day went And she...
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WOOD FOR THE TREES (formerly Logomachy), parts 31-38

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WOOD FOR THE TREES (formerly Logomachy), parts 22-30

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Beth Tree and the Elgars 3

I played each of the scales in turn, over and over, and still Mr. Elgar sat at his desk, writing something, and paid no attention to me whatsoever. I...

Make Believe

She stirs her coffee anti clockwise driven by the need never to coincide with time. This woman – plating up a life of half baked neurosis catching...

Superb, and Sympathetic

[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] We praise the God transcendent who dwells beyond, so high above the stars, resplendent, but notices a sigh...

Yellow

What is it that gives us hope? The ability to awake day after day, With the gall to presume, That today is the day it will get better. Why do we...

To You

When everything seems lost When I can't afford the cost When my days are looking bleak When my knees start to go weak I look to you When there's...

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