Cherrypicked stories

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Hard on the outside

Womens refuge
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EPIGRAM: Unce Upon a Ballot

Ever feel like your vote didn't count&;#063;
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LIMERICK: "Cleptomaniac"

a silly ditty about stealing fruits &; nuts
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Actual Reality

The holiday of his lifetime&;#063;
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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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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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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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Cerebral Malaria

once bitten...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No Good At Maths...........................13

had this conversation with 2 people, so must be my fault
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A Smoke Signal...................................8

Called to the telephone that evening, I clutched the receiver of untouchable treasure. It took me a while to work out what the soft "click" was in...
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Failing To Think About Trees..............11

I had this comfort before: the free shawl of afternoon light draped over me, warming me inside out walking in the woods. When your companionship came...
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Glass Of Water...............................4

You see through me every time, have learned how I distort the world. When you come I tremble; with a finger, you could stir me. If you drank me I...

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