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Pull
(image: mine) Calm sets like a wish on the night. In your garden, the fruit trees bloom with stars. The sky tilts its last light to the edge...
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True Colours
Freshly picked from my garden... FMF © 2011 True Colours Like the sea of silk geraniums On display in Waldecks Garden Centre Cafe Consumerism has...
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On The Killing of A Bird of Prey
A bad omen out of the blue sky. Its silent intent to kill sent it at a screaming angle across the dual carriageway to death itself, so intent on its...
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Like a cow
I miss you like a cow. Plaintive I moo, and ruminate these memories. They circulate, Through eight or seven stomachs, Regurgitated, Then swallowed...
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Bron-10
Continued from Chapter 9: Bron-9 | ABCtales Chapter 10 “I say, Bron - there’s a guy stood on the traffic island - looking up at our windows.” Bron...
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Sisters of Snow
In cold spells they collapse to the ground only to resurrect themselves once the temperature rises. During conflict they were used to de-ice tanks...
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The Less Miserables Enter a Contest (3)
(Cont.) He finished fourth. The bleached-hair kid from Winston-Salem took first—no surprise there, his runs had been surgical, every trick landed...
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The Less Miserables Enter a Contest (2)
(Cont.) For the next two weeks, Hector changed everything. He stopped running lines. Instead, he broke his contest sequence down into components and...
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The Less Miserables Enter a Contest (1)
The flyer was taped to the window of All-City Board Shop, already curling at the edges from the July heat. SUMMER STREET COMP Saturday, August 5th $...
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Many hearts
I have, Like a current running though me, Fast and steady, The many hearts that sing. Late these thorough thoughts take form, Curl and unfurl, Like...
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Shhhh - IP
Sometimes I don’t want to hang out and eat with the crew, rather sit in the silence made by the excellent insulation of my car and read. Shhhh. Warm...
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Manna from Heaven
Manna From Heaven It is an expression that most of us are familiar with. Its origin alludes to the food (manna) that miraculously appeared to feed...
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laughing water
gentle joyful cascades of love court dance and romance misty mystery of minnehaha's magic mystic music madly sing her mother's rushing mushing...
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The Dumb Waiter 2026
A play for today in one act Apologies to Harold Pinter (image: mine) SCENE: A basement room. Two beds, flat against the back wall. Between the beds,...
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Uphill, January 29th 2026
Uphill, January 29th 2026 St Nicholas church has stood here for centuries staring out over the sea, standing high on a hill, liminal limestone walls...
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Meat and Two Veg Gets a Health Warning from the Old Constable
Well! What do we have here, young squire? Meat and two veg, out for hire? Is it a gun, ready to fire? A punting pole, stuck in the mire? Away with...
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Lefty
Lefty They call us lefty’s Well I have some questions for them Do you believe in a fair days work for a fair days pay ? Do you believe in free health...
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Autonomy
When I say my morning prayer I always include a request for God our Father, Jesus our Savior and the Holy Ghost our Sanctifier to protect my family...
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Him.
Him. No one always know just what they would do on the spur of the moment! We all hope we would do the right thing at the right time. No honest...
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Montreal summer 92
I walked in door and the girls hide. They were nt sure it was me. They were petrified, shaken up. These girls had been accidental to my life someone...
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