Cherrypicked stories
Paring Down
Ours is a world of tiny cuts and bruises. Some wounds cut deeper than others.
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- 541 reads
Waiting for Departure
Waiting for Departure Cold morning metal, stationary, soon to be moving, past the first trickle of commuters flowing into the station, swift-moving...
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- 682 reads
River
River Strings of lights Overture of the day to come Underground trains rumble an alarm Tell of a new morning awakening Half-light rosy with...
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- 765 reads
Wellington
A haiku about the capital of NZ
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- 727 reads
Just above the surface
It`s really quite long. Sure you want to bother&;#063;
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- 819 reads
Inspector North calls the tune
Inspector North solves a burglary in a rather unusual way.
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- 653 reads
Cycling
a chance encounter whilst washing up
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- 831 reads
A Sonnet for you
Feeling the loss
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- 812 reads
Gilded Cage
Time slips through our fingers, Dusting the past upon the floor, As love flows on towards us And away for ever more. Lost in the madness of a smile,...
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- 564 reads
Up
a needle tuned to imperfect north and all its music you are a compass of song magnetic bright on the morning with you I become a bird a sky a star
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- 651 reads
Quantum physicality
Even though you are not here, I feel you are. And although it is not you in my arms, I am holding you. You are precious and warm, despite the fact...
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- 809 reads
Easy
Atlas with the world as a rucksack. The discovery of fire or electricity. A Houdini trick. Phenomenological philosophy. Life in the Sahara. Beating...
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- 715 reads
The Lovers and the Sniper
T is for The Lovers and the Sniper --------------------------------- Did he ever walk a sweetheart In the mid-day sunshine? Their love was fresh-it...
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- 642 reads
A Chip Shop Circle
'It's cold isn't it? I'll have a brandy when we get there.' There was an aura surrounding a rising sickle moon that was giving clues about the...
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- 2136 reads
Valley Farm
John Constable works on his last Suffolk painting, 1835
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- 1098 reads
Come On You Blues
8:30am. The alarm clock triggers its quadraphonic jangle, ricochets off the walls and splices into my brain like a swarm of hot bullets. It remains...
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- 1734 reads
Angel Stew
And you think you determine your own destiny
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- 1167 reads
Louise
L is for Louise ------ Where did she come from? Did she sail across the vast universe In a billowing galleon? A French name....fiery An Irish...
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- 720 reads