Cherrypicked stories
Come Sunday
While you scrubbed your kitchen on Sunday morning Methamphetamine an old woman tapped at your door. She’d moved here yesterday and had made you a pie...
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Unmown ‘lawns’ – plant conglomeration
Golden ‘Cat’s Ears’ flourishing, where drought and soil unnourishing has left the grass short, yellowing … but on the other lawn, abundance, of variety – self-heal, cinquefoil and clover daisies, moss …
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Forest Secrets
Meandering Forest banks Looping waves Of green those Silent ferns Lie serene, Even swelter Scorching sun Cannot rob cool Sense of calm, Across a path...
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- 100 reads
Sweet river
Windows of escape
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Don't Fear The Change
Don’t Fear The Change By Paul McCann So we fear in the italics with a lot of emphasis on those bound in chains and abused in relationships Change in...
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june 20th
wind plays liquid dominoe runs with grass, seeds soft amethyst sea. Below azure smooth, boats small as white moths rising from our feet as we wade...
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Aaron - the Wind Rush in
If you want something cheerful. Skip. it. Draft - Aaron's poem prep
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Love
my heart is bursting at his kiss like an unfurled peony
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The Last Man on the Moon
Another old one. Only posted at all because it contains the word 'pandemic'. Sci-Fi. Not fair just to warn you in the summary, I know, but maybe the picture's a clue. Image free for non commercial use from freesvg.org
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True Stories (Part 2 or 2)
It took me a few days to work myself up to showing them to Julie. We’d just finished a day of shopping and dress-fittings, and we were seated at a...
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True Stories (Part 1 of 2)
The camera never lies. Except for this camera. This camera is different. # I found the camera in a junk/antiques store. I wasn’t even precisely in...
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From Jester To King CXI
Gidi.
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The Lookout Of My Heart
The Lookout Of My Heart By Paul McCann I see you in front of me on the edge about to fall , I run to you but you can’t see so I begin to call , just...
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Longest Day
A little light Saturday paganism.
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An Ill Wind
It was an ill wind that blew us indoors, interrupted, as spring turned to summer. The season blooms through slow-motion downpours, panic-buying and...
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Bird Of Prey On A Solstice Day
Awaken in Early morning Mindfully restored, Presence seeking Gracious gentle flight, I stream across Golden glow Imagine pushing time – Remaining...
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A June afternoon
That's it. Back to the reading. Thanks.
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… but it can deceive
A scene set-up with ‘paper’ fairies*, or tricks of lighting implying mysteries, and plates corrupted (before our day of digital manipulation, to...
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