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The Things We Can't Hold Onto While We're Moving

Slack, drum, safe A slicked down lizard's floating space The trudging sunken hammer face Platoons the warm abyss Cold, red, white From nothing grown...
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" If Tea’s More Important than Soup" [Mr Martínez Part 30]

Above decks... Image source Wiki Commons, taken by photographer named in image: licence CC-SA 2.0.
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Trevor

Trevor I glimpsed Trevor today, looking good, clean bedroll, spotless trackie top and bottoms brand new trainers, jaunty brown bowler over a...

Anyway

Don't you find it strange that no one is anxious about catching the corona virus except the anxious, it's all in their head you know, most people...
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Moths

This is the night the moths wake up and flutter stunned around the porch light trembling with silence only there is no silence, only a grasping of...
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Twilight's Embrace

Cold. The landscape is a paste of white-wash. Covers shrubs and escape-routes. Moles and other creatures awakened to the fact winter has come. Shiver...
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Flesh in the juices of autumn

Forgive the apples for sweetness when you wait for fire but I come as the wind. We both take to forbidden fruit, quarter our kisses, we share the...
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One In The Heart And Mind

. One In The Heart And Mind By Paul McCann Just one look and I knew that I could depend on you . Just one word that you said confirmed what was in my...
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Poem of the week

Run

watch your hair fall out in those unfaced, blank slate sertraline dreams.
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"Lies Always Come Back" [Mister Martínez Part Twenty Nine]

Fizzle...hiss... As you can see from the photo, whilst the Hedy Lamarr isn't nearly as glamourous as its namesake, or indeed 'Rita, it's much nicer than I've made it sound. Image is a screenshot from Balearia.com's website. This is much better than a plug on TripAdvisor and I've told them so.

Coastline

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I sit on the shores of the coastline, the sand is warm, the water dances with blinding radiance and the people around me are light-hearted . Today...

Half a World Away

“That’s not it idiot, I meant that you should have told me you found someone sooner.” “It’s only been a few weeks.” “I’m your best friend, you should...
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growing pains

growing pains there’s a pack of surly black dogs snarling and hissing at my heels it scatters when I turn to face it, regathers when I’m feeling down...

Not Fair

Day after day,we grieve for you, The heartache of that cruel, Confused, painful day, Will never, ever go away. It was sudden and we felt Such a heart...

Strange Times

The freedom of the birds and the whispy summer clouds are what we dream of now Spring was quietly stolen our liberties curtailed homes were a prison...
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I Want To Watch The Wind Dance

I want to watch the wind dance, Watch it twirl and swirl and whirl around, Watch it pitter patter as it plays on either side of a leaf on a branch as...
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A Story of May

I was born in October, and I always knew my name was chosen as a political statement. My Dad was a member of the International Marxist Group back then. They were big in the seventies.

The Sausage

I tied a sausage to my leg and for a short time my ex-girlfriend was fooled. But she dumped me flat on my ass when she laerned her leg was being...

Lamenting the lock-up

Josiah and Archibald consider the possibility of further Covid restrictions, with mixed results.
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The answer to ‘nature deficit disorder’

out into free therapy, and don't deprive children

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