Cherrypicked stories
Invention
Written to a theme of 'Invention' for the WA Spring Poetry Festival 2008.
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My Curriculum Vitae: The Musical
Does what it says. I'm seriously thinking of staging this.
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The End of our Marriage
This is me trying to apply good creative writing advice to marriage counseling. I gave this to a friend as a wedding gift
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Curry By Any Other Name
I was in Australia in the late Seventies, when the empire of curry was not fully established there.
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Leftovers
How lust cuts across class barriers
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Meaning
It was you who thrust the poem into the corner and continued to kick while it cowered - just to see what happens when it bleeds.
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Minstrel
IP teenytiny poem, edited 28.08.09
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Happy Holidays
Inspiration Point
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SF. Pt. 20. Bangkok reflections.
Stuck inside of Bangkok with those Sixties blues again.
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A Simple Complex
Ave (ry) Simplistic Complex May offend the religious.
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The Moon and the Window
She couldn't remember her name, her age or where she was from, only the small concrete room she was locked in, an eternity of darkness except for the beautiful moon.
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A view to the future
A hush came across the theatre.
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Miss
Some flowers there. White. Indian white. White from a hedgerow, tight twined, snapped out. I thought “Yes, better wild” as I ‘saw’ her - sat beside the fire in her box room; the glow
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untitled
The sun refused its duty pulling a comforter of grey over its head, ignorant, as the frustrated sky filled up with tears. Below, I sit and catch the drops upon my tongue
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Picture at an Exhibition
A T-shirt that said, 'Save Our Seals'.
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Greenwood kindling
IP small poem/edited 26.08.09 Think it reads better? Comments appreciated.
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Klamath is a lot like Paris
This is where I'm from: a respectable American downtown: you can walk down Main Street and some folks smile, some folks frown: most do neither, some are affluent and some are poor
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Courtship Lake I.P.
This weeks I.P. Same photo, different poem (more laziness than cleverness ;)
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Essex versus the rest of the world
Seemed like a good idea, last week, meeting Christine, to catch up on everything seeing as thelast time was in 1993 and she was sick in the bin at Burger King.
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