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Peace

A poem about serching for peace.
Cherry

Floating Brain

Good morning, class.

The Stench

abstainence is the best policy

Meals on Wheels

Six-year-old Jimmy learns the true spirit of Christmas in this holiday story titled, "Meals on Wheels."

Interrogation

Reinventing the wheel. That's exactly what I felt like I was doing when I would spend enless time around the clock trying to remain one step ahead of my soon to be ex-husband. Sure I know now many more things than I knew then, back when I was in the middle of living that nightmare. Why is that when you really need the help no one is there. So you attempt on your own to protect yourself and your family. You do everything wrong. You worry about things you don't have to, and the things your aren't even remotely thinking could be a danger to you are actually the things that are the biggest threat to your slipping from paranoid fear into realistic fear. My paranoid fear was the kind of fear you have when you swear someone is about to bust down your door when all you heard was likely the creaking of your home settling down for the evening. Realistic fear is the kind of fear you feel when someone is pounding very aggressively on your door screaming "bitch let me in" and in the same breath saying "I just want to talk to you." This is real fear. Compound this fear by the sudden realization while running to grab the phone to call the police that your phone is not in service. Real fear is not being able to alert anyone that you need help and you now must figure out how to get help from the outside, the same outside where he is, while you are trapped on the inside trying to keep him in the very place you need to be to get help. Reinventing the wheel. Why did I not know that you could dial 911 from a disconected phone.This is not the kind of thing that they teach you in school. Or of course you could learn it the hard way like I did, after the fact. The need of this knowledge and much more is in the minds of many women who have experienced domestic violence and lived to tell about it. Or we could only hope they would tell about it. I know that had even one of those women who had already invented that wheel would have told me about dialing 911 on an out of service phone, things would have been different that night.

War Memorial

Passels of plastic chairs half filled with empty souls, where gaps grow yearly replaced by psalm books, or council representatives made to wear...

Interlude

Remembering that street and the gown of rain Which varnished her feet Her cracked hands walking over my loneliness in to avenues of my yearning. I...

Bells and Other Sorrows, IX

The Will at war with itself.
Cherry

Bells and Other Sorrows, III

The second departure
Cherry

He's too clever by half

Mam has taken the kids on holiday with the polls win - but what will Dad do with the rest?

Marketing Poetry

Mark and Dave get creative in their strategy - but will it work?

Bells and Other Sorrows, V

Connection is a cosmic cord

Beyond the picture frame.

Deranged glances, in the eyes of estranged parents, mock a breaking man from behind glass.

Refuge

Acrobats seek shelter.

Haar

The tarmac speeds past my window I feel alone, detached, the heavy darkness edges in, like the haar coming from the sea my mind cannot see through it...
Cherry

The Vigil

A little vampire story of a different kind!
Cherry

What's Urdu for diarrhoea?

A holiday to Pakistan six years ago
Cherry

Damage

Damage needs gentle handling; drop them and they'll splatter, not bounce but don't overlook the shelf; there are good things to be found among the...
Cherry

Zap - YOU CAN DO MAGIC

Poem!

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