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A Woman of the Swamp - 2

Previous Chapter 2. Little Shop of Voodoo Time passed slow in the fetid heat. There were no sirens, and no alarms. Marie reached back through the...

Speak To Me

. Speak To Me By Paul McCann Speak to me , won’t you speak to me or I might just have to talk to myself. The long shadows are falling and I’m...

Mother Of The Frail

Mother Of The Frail By Paul McCann Mother of the frail bring solutions to better care for all those who need help today . Mother of the frail settle...

My Greed in my deed

My Greed in my deed “Greed you must shun so as to ascertain a place in heaven” parted to me as a sermon since my very early age through curricula’s...

Countdown Sunrise

Countdown Sunrise Today I saw the sunrise I’ve seen oft before I watched the fiery cosmic wonder As it tore the night asunder Soaring in the heavens...

hugging Lauren at WOMAD (1990)

hugging Lauren at WOMAD (1990) Lauren wandered the showground willing herself into another time, another place, best of all home stroking Beefheart...

Hot dreams

The chefs are cycling uphill to their flat, three of them all in sleeping bags on the floor of their rented room above a chip shop. I once watched a...
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Hi small girl

We are in the cinema and you are with probably your dad. They're showing ET. It's some kind of anniversary I've always said cinemas should show more...
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A prompt is a cue

Sometimes if I hear an aeroplane I book a holiday. If I hear an ambulance I cancel my next day's plans. You know those few seconds before someone...

a man finds the horizon

one day he drifted out to blue he spoke always of nothing else for him I wished it might be true for him I wished and for myself relentless wind...

Talking to myself ( a old lady looking back at her life)

Tick tonk, tick tonk dame clock. You know each tick and that second-hand goes and another bit of life goes. But then again oh well I don't know. You...

This Summer (2020)

This Summer (2020) July arrive, hot and sweaty, escaping lockdown, gradually easing itself into summer’s swelter while occasional comfort zones...

Escape Into Art

Paint me an ocean scene call it autumn by the sea, figures standing windswept on grassy cliff top feeling free, requesting invitation to welcome...

The Komsomol - Part Two

They set off together, the two of them. Pavel was the oldest person there, apart from the camp director. At twenty-eight it was his final year...

The Komsomol - Part One

The ladder creaked and little clouds of dust followed behind the boy as he climbed down through the trap. "What are you doing up there, Sacha?" He...

Seven Months now, or Eight.

Seven months now? Or eight? Is the Texas sky still blue? Or black with the corpses of those who should have lived. Does Karen still tend her garden?...

two tankas, two free form

and so I sigh a gentle breeze may cool foreheads with a kiss, ruffle a child’s hair, uplift a butterfly, sow a flower seed, raise a petal from gutter...
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Timeless

Listen to the wind when it chases through cities and open land with unheard messages wander unhindered, let your hair flutter like the migrating...
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