Cherrypicked stories
Gilded Cage
Time slips through our fingers, Dusting the past upon the floor, As love flows on towards us And away for ever more. Lost in the madness of a smile,...
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- 599 reads
Up
a needle tuned to imperfect north and all its music you are a compass of song magnetic bright on the morning with you I become a bird a sky a star
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- 700 reads
Quantum physicality
Even though you are not here, I feel you are. And although it is not you in my arms, I am holding you. You are precious and warm, despite the fact...
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- 853 reads
Easy
Atlas with the world as a rucksack. The discovery of fire or electricity. A Houdini trick. Phenomenological philosophy. Life in the Sahara. Beating...
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- 759 reads
The Lovers and the Sniper
T is for The Lovers and the Sniper --------------------------------- Did he ever walk a sweetheart In the mid-day sunshine? Their love was fresh-it...
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- 690 reads
A Chip Shop Circle
'It's cold isn't it? I'll have a brandy when we get there.' There was an aura surrounding a rising sickle moon that was giving clues about the...
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- 2304 reads
Valley Farm
John Constable works on his last Suffolk painting, 1835
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- 1172 reads
Come On You Blues
8:30am. The alarm clock triggers its quadraphonic jangle, ricochets off the walls and splices into my brain like a swarm of hot bullets. It remains...
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- 1866 reads
Angel Stew
And you think you determine your own destiny
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- 1277 reads
Louise
L is for Louise ------ Where did she come from? Did she sail across the vast universe In a billowing galleon? A French name....fiery An Irish...
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- 767 reads
Knot
Knot to untie this, dance, free to feel you warm in curve of arm, turn at your heel close enough to take your breath and give it back strung on a...
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- 811 reads
Fairy Lights
I sit once again on the first day of January Staring at new books, perfume CD's I never asked for Piled near the chipped Moroccan book stand In the...
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- 963 reads
On the Passing of a Would-Be Poet
On the Passing of a Would-Be Poet She spent her days Believing in the gold mine Beneath the gutter Every one and every thing She could never have She...
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- 622 reads
Haiku of Intent
Haiku of Intent The ache is never quite what it once was. Am I cured or exhausted?
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- 714 reads
Langston Hughes Meets Saturday Morning
Pancakes.
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- 676 reads
Frost at Midnight
Fairy tales happen when you least expect them.
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- 584 reads
Quiggins
Because extraordinary people rarely see themselves that way.
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- 693 reads