Cherrypicked stories
Lark ascending
was not sure - seemed to be good to be true ...
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First Emperor of China, the man, not the Divine.
Leaders of men, I query what motives they have.This poem came from watching a documentary which provoked an interest in the guy who orderedt he terracotta army.
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Fade Into You
A man hanging on to yesterday as the mile markers of reality disappear in the rearview...
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The Last Word
He didn’t know what else to say. He could say he was sorry, again. No, that wasn’t it. He could say, “I forgive you”. No, that wasn’t it either.
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3) Journey To Work
Danny takes the bus to work.
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Keep Apart Two Chevrons
1st in sequence which includes: The Eye and Inside Being Them, The Paper Of The Country And The Housewife, They Will Forgive Them Everything, The remaining Inch Which Could remove the Wrinkle
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The Eye And Inside Being Them
Lifts unfold them like origami to omniscient, one-armed cranes pointing their guns skyward prophesying rain. Cyclists dismount. Lorries flick their scent. Dolphin trains beach
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The Gardener
Remembering....
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'Volunteering' (from 'Poker Face')
Because of Ms. Regan, I am able to work here. She is an important psychoanalyst. She says, ‘of all the teenage volunteers I've known, you're the brightest!’
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Good Book
Always, these last six months, the terrified atheist, I turned to the dictionary for solace, imagined bedding down upon a latticework of definitions, the warm leathery tang
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Are you happy with your ecological experience?
Well, no.
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The Man I Love
Love doesn't always have to look like in the movies.
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Consider the birds in the Winding Gear of Lancashire
Confounded letter
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Long ago & far away in a room of glass
Confounded letter
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Last year it was Halcyon perhaps
Confounded Letter
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Yesterday then was a Criticism of Mountains
Confounded letter
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Cydonia - One
This is the first part of a longer piece, currently sitting at about 13,000 words in 7 parts. I'm not sure at the moment if it's something that I want to expand further or to leave as it is.
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With Love
What will it take?
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if only
on reading Coleridge’s ‘the Aeolian harp’ while listening to Norman Cook’s remix of ‘brimful of Asha’
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True Love
Okay, I have the tendency to pick the wrong guys, but now I hit the scales big time even by my standard.
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