Cherrypicked stories
Tiger
Inspired by a photo accompanying Emma Humphreys' biography
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- 403 reads
What Price Freedom&;#063;
A young son's memory of Desert Storm
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- 493 reads
Resisting everything except...
Surely everyone should have a version of the Faust story - here's mine
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- 861 reads
Hard on the outside
Womens refuge
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- 448 reads
EPIGRAM: Unce Upon a Ballot
Ever feel like your vote didn't count&;#063;
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- 701 reads
LIMERICK: "Cleptomaniac"
a silly ditty about stealing fruits &; nuts
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- 690 reads
Actual Reality
The holiday of his lifetime&;#063;
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- 376 reads
Constellations
The stars are Bedouin fires in Saharan expanses of sky; the stars are swirlings of milk in the cold black water of night. Or the stars are luminous...
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- 346 reads
Witnessing a build-up
Below my feet the gulls wheel and soar, there are rumours of waves at the cliff foot. Clouds start piling up like sandbags, hidden turbines engineer...
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- 353 reads
Held In Silence Only.........................19
With people, I'm thick, struck dumb, numb as a tree; uneasy. When they shoot the breeze, I wish I could take my leave. But print is different:...
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- 696 reads
Word Cages...................................3
They say poetry is not made for joy, is a bar, rather, that wraps want in beauty seeking to trap us in letter fetters for a sentence of life that,...
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- 660 reads
Two Weeks Till I See You Again........9
I look forward, hopeless as as a fly through glass. Days pass missing you, like a train not stopping where I want to get off, reading recipes I've no...
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- 818 reads
Shells...........................................1
Sun spools through cowparsley flowers, makes a lace of brightness. Birds' songs knit, unravel as I travel beneath budding crab apple trees. Shadow...
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- 695 reads
Rose Out......................................6
Hurrying to fill up the black holes in the floral stand before the store opens, like a conjurer from drab cardboard boxes I release scented stocks,...
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- 787 reads
Bed Time......................................5
I said "Could we hold hands?" He said "Why? That's for children." I said "Could I have a cuddle?" He said "Trust me, we'll get there quicker like...
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- 805 reads
Putting Sweet Fruit........................7
"Do you like jam?" I want to make you something, put the red fruit sweet in your mouth. I pick strawberries: Summer's scent symbol of sex's fleeting...
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- 761 reads
Oh, Make Me Catch My Breath!..........12
At first, I was relieved - you hadn't had enough of me; now I worry the room I have in your mind is made of straw for you whom I'd trusted in my...
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- 706 reads
Mosquito........................................15
As I whine, here, how much I miss your warm thoughts, return countless times to my hotmail account to no avail - it is over, I see a mosquito hovver...
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- 635 reads
No Good At Maths...........................13
had this conversation with 2 people, so must be my fault
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- 656 reads