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L is for Letters (to North Pole) and Lichen
wishful lists, neatly made, flame posted, undefine slow creeping, bark borne jade filaments, mist slick, shine this picture is from Wimedia : https...
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Pandemonium is a Natural Affair
Once the sun kisses the edge of the horizon new adventures begin- a wind stirs the pot with a mix of turmoil as it draws from a nest of furor shoving...
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Are We Family
Ten long years. It was Pwy’he’s tenth birthday, eleventh if you asked Char and the house was in full swing. Given the differences in the human and...
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10
Two figures represent 10. the crab that walks sideways …
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Blueprint
Bulbs rustle in paper bags, pale corns, rhizomes, tubers to breathe new life into a barren corporate patch. Husks, tipped with green shoots, become...
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A man with no peer
A man with no peer At my fontanel reverberates a yell that Kali is an angel not a man, mortal sent with a mission as a man common to demonstrate for...
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Hotel Mediterraneo
Sultry and still the sweet night air. Latin music. Crickets chirping. Like a favela in Rio or anywhere But for the sound of Geordies burping. For el...
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Newsflash: Update
Usually I contribute a little bit of fun to the Abc site, but this time I ask you to consider some serious questions. Virologists have often made the...
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Great Horton Swan Song
From high up upon their sacred hill. They’ve sat watching me twist mad, thin and ill. Because I’ve felt horrors that they’ll never conceive. Away I...
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K is for Kings and Knapweed
gifts for fraught future brought - gold, frankinsence and myrrh purple crown much bee-sought turned finch seedhead sceptre
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J is for Jingle Bells and Jackdaws (another go at this)
bright sound from high, cold night of promise drawing near dusk; like roofs' slates took flight with joyous jew's harps' cheer
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Playlist: For a Road Trip in Spring
A playlist that takes me back to my youth.
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9
… We ring 9, then 9 again, and 9 once more on a phone if there is a …
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THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER - Chorkie's Discourses (first part)
THUS SPOKE CHORKIE WALKER Of the Three Metamorphoses ‘I name you three metamorphoses of the miniature teddy bear: how a mass-produced toy shall...
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Lazing On a Thursday Afternoon
Caught in a lull between two storms, I’m stuck in an uneasy stay-in-the-house kind of frame of mind, reluctant to open the back door even though the...
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Santa in Therapy
Santa lets loose in the psychiatrist's office.
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8
8 legs on a spider – 4 on each side (4 and 4 makes 8); 8 tentacles on an octopus (like arms) An octagon is a flat shape with 8 straight sides ‘octo’...
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The Last Room
Don't take room 217, they told me But that was the last one left 'First right, then wrong ', said the receptionist. 'Don't you mean left?' , I said...
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Stress
The demon called stress skulks in the darkness of our minds behind the backlogs and bulk of unfinished work left and unsigned 'til the following day...
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Upperkirkgate, Sunday
Evidently drunk on Life, the bottled kind, a streetcorner Pavarotti remixes arias, Oblivious to the masses, shopping blind, hands held high, his Ave...
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