Cherrypicked stories
Funeral in Fiji
A Funeral in Fiji It is a stifling day. We swelter in packed pews in the echoing church, until a cold rain hammers on the iron roof, and a draft...
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- 1383 reads
Artists
Artists The tools of their art are spread on the ground: the ochres, the reeds chewed to a brushpoint, the grinding stones - only the glue they use...
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- 1117 reads
D: Wallaby and Dogs
Wallaby And Dogs I was moving water-smooth stones to shape a dam when the despairing wallaby crashed by our noses into the water, the half-Alsatian...
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- 1114 reads
Wild Dogs
Wild Dogs Because I have heard the wild dogs in the night, up there on the Daly in the empty North, these days I itch with a vague dissatisfaction:...
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- 1014 reads
Children's Python
Children's Python She is no friend of mine, but we have reached a modus vivendi: : she will not startle me again at night when I am outside in the...
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- 1087 reads
JACK - PRETTY JACK
ANOTHER OLD FAIRY-TALE UPDATED
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- 1243 reads
Service
I have come to this place to be changed To break up the pieces and be rearranged I have come to this place to be healed To remove the fa?ade and be...
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- 816 reads
School days
Uniformed collective pile from teethed gates Swirls of cigarette smoke entwine Above illegal heads Kisses are exchanged for handholding And promise...
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- 1042 reads
Moon
For Fish...for giving me this inspiration
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- 1258 reads
A: WELCOME TO PACIFIC AND MAPLE
Introduction
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- 2028 reads
Trapped
I don't want to be a Consumer I don't want to be named for my greed But I've listened to marketing liars and now fashion's the one thing I need But I...
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- 917 reads
Domesticated Silkworm
Mulberry dreams, I spend my days Grazing brightly leaf green haze. Ghost mist darkness, falling moon, Beats retreat. In silk cocoon
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- 2057 reads
Countdown to Halloween
A Ghost Story
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- 959 reads
Wordblind
All is leaves at my walking feet. The brightest, I gather - yellow, ochre, corrugated or veined emerald on lemon, take them home, make pictures of...
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- 1062 reads
The Drifter
Night-time is upon us and the children are a'bed It's time for all the wiser men to gently rest their heads Upon their feathered pillows and to...
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- 1186 reads
Dark and Lovely an autobiographicla excerpt
my autobiography
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- 1188 reads
You're Winsome; You're Loathsome
Prose poem about confusion and Walt Whitman
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- 1284 reads