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Safe Space
[Continuing the hymn-for-Sundays series] … space for all from fears to hide. Safe because … As you struggle in this place … ’till reach danger-free ‘home-base’.
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Disenchantment 9
The breeze made me feel a little colder, so I put my hand closer to the fire to receive the warmth that we often associate with fire, but it wasn’t...
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Ben and Tillie
Ben and Tillie scraped by in the basement of tinned-up twenty-three I checked them out occasionally as they opened the door the stench of boiled...
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Disenchantment 8
I did lie to Hornblende. I tried to merely lie by omission, but he asked me too many questions. I was telling the truth when I said that I called...
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Happy Birthday, Mom - Part VIII
When you died, I was devastated and didn't know what to do. If you hadn't died, today you would've turned seventy-two. The love that I felt for you...
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"Perception"
We may live on the same street Perhaps in the same building But I will see events Through a prism Created By my experiences I’ll interpret facts As...
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To my imaginary child
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Prisoners
We are prisoners of your words catchy, punchy, lethal to us Daily you have an advantage weekly you kill us slowly We are prisoners of your words our...
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Strange times
The smirk on your lips and scorn in your eyes is killed by a quick turn as I stand transfixed from your thoughts outplaying on a street in the sun...
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Time Was
I plucked a moment from younger days, pleasures twirling in an unseen eddy; arms outstretched before sloping to earth, laughing among blades of vivid...
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The Hike To Nightfall
The Hike To Nightfall by Paul McCann . On a hike through the evergreen way the sound of a gushing stream cascaded round our ears as thoughts poured...
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shrine on a high bridge
[tanka format] tight to the railings baby’s palm print, blue bootees cellophaned posy and tear sodden goodbye note finished off in black crayon “dear...
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"Sparse and Molasses Slow" Mr Martínez Six(?)
SSSSSSSSssssss.... Image from google maps...
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Jessica
I catch a whiff of bitter almonds, the eyes that mock me sign the way, as I sigh in search of lost time in Bahnhofstraße Saarbrücken. Our discussions...
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stick around
Sadie, in a lavender nightie, parked her bum on the arm of the settee rolling a cig from the ashtray to smoke while watching a Ground Control re-run...
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Sleepers
You'll never get these minutes back
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Fairy tale in G
Say you'll still love me in the morning
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