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How To: Understanding Basic Boxing
Basic Boxing Welcome to Basic Boxing. This article is written by a 5-year competitive boxer and part-time boxing instructor. This article is intended...
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The Termini Flower
An encounter at Rome station that has stuck with me.
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Anna and Rosie 2 (based on letters from my mother to her sister)
Letters from Anna (aged 17) to her sister Rose (aged 25) and talking about her various brothers and sisters, Alex, Andrew, Jack, Eddie, Ceal, Gertie...
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When I think of you
When I think of you I think of arguments Of hanging by fingertips To old sentiments We were far too young Trying to be too old We were ill prepared...
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Still photographs
Still photographs, reykjavik held within a winter's night, colour the quiet moments of my life with grey light frozen in time. Your footfall follows...
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Leaving Mia
for Jenni Schaefer She was a cruel mistress, who lived at the back of my throat, who stung my tonsils and stained my tongue, who pushed my head down...
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Whenever I kiss her, I always hear
Hey girl, kiss her again, from some hot rushed heavy hush. At night when the cups are being passed around to tongues already wet, we are called to...
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Destiny in the Mind
His lips create upside-down phrases that climb the wall like a reverse waterfall, dementia holding on tightly -- he sits quietly in the room staring...
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A Cool Wind
shivers across ranch pastures, teases arthritic bones and shares pain regardless of beauty beyond the Hungry Hills, where grizzlies --- two of them...
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Upon staring out my frostbitten window, the stars began to swoon
Hey, Lilly, it’s me, your old friend, Darcy, who hung herself from the crabapple tree at dusk last August. Sorry I hadn’t thought of what I was doing...
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Side Pocket
I don’t want the morning to come too soon. You know me and my pain -- the stroke the drugs the whines and crawling on the floor to get a cup of...
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Ch21: Stolen June 13th
I hate myself. I’m sitting on the top of the hill behind the cottage, facing towards the north. I can see Bressay Island and the tiny dots of houses...
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Memory of a Mamba
I saw a mamba, A black one,
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Crime and Punishment
*** I witnessed this execution ***
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Let Down Your Guard
Guarded letters guarding hearts, Saving face in wordy vaults. Hiding life in secret parts Braving not to bear our faults Guards his words like...
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If I had seven hearts instead of one
If I had seven hearts instead of one, all the joy your love brings, they could not hold. No store house, perhaps not even the sun contains so much a...
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The Swedish Bureau (I.P.)
Guarded letters.
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Love, unbelievable
Those who hear me tell about my love must think I lie for it’s hard to believe men may reach heaven and not die ; hard to believe that such bright...
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The Count and The Carpenter
Once there was a village carpenter and blacksmith called Pascal who received a mysterious visitor; a nobleman who called himself the Comte de Lupine...
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Unguarded Letters
It's almost too dark to see. What little light there is comes from the small lump in my hand: a mixture of dirt, rags, sweat, a trace of hoarded...
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