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Evening Triumph
Clouds begin to plot evening’s arrival – shadows trickling down the mountain shadows of chill and tree-top movements close as daylight’s romance –...
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Tissue
Blood clotted tissues, Full of blood clotted tissue, I find myself waiting, In the waiting room.... Again.
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An Infringement upon Dreaming Spires
George rides his solitary bike, eyes alit for potholes. Mind awash with other obstacles cloying his attention: This morning's toast delivered with a...
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Sticks and Stones
Once, not that long ago, in a land, not that far away, there lived a man, who worked very hard. He dedicated his life to fighting injustice and was...
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Is He Human (or is he Dancing?)
Is He Human (or is he Dancing?) Ed ‘Astaire’ Balls Courted cat calls It shows just how neat Can be two left feet
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Barking (poem first published in Krax 1999)
Today I heard someone Growling in the street. It was just the sort of thing A dog does through its teeth, Not a snarl around someone’s feet, But in...
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Chet and the Prisoners - 12
Chet April 10 Now on these days when it is getting warmer and the snow is mostly gone, the guys are playing softball on every opportunity they can. I...
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Rewind repeat
I don't like you this conversation, My mind flits away like a disturbed fruit fly, Then I miss your comment, Trouble returns, Rewind repeat.
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seagull memory
The wind picks up by Barbican, doglegs me through St Paul’s, past a nut-seller huddled by his stall on the bridge that will wobble no more whips foam...
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Pens
Silver Pen, click perfect. Parker a favourite but bloody expensive, ain't it? What're the chances that a ten pound pen is worth more in literature...
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A Tree Branch
Shake with life in the wild, within the breeze of a special invitation. Pause for a moment and listen to it swing ing high -- that birch limb...
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Owl and the Pussycat
The Owl and the Pussycat Went for a ride, on the number 9 Bus from Clovelly, They took for their lunch some honey nut crunch And a carton of milk...
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Rest Little One Rest
Little One, Rest A little candle just went out Rest little one, rest. Three short days Now forever young Rest little one, rest. I can’t supress my...
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Black
Cuts in the clouded sky reveal flashes blue, Like moth riddled bed sheets I see the world beyond, and it me. Am I looking out or they in? Such silken...
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…in 25 minutes (poem first published in Iota 54, Spring 2001)
It was the 25 minute cab ride into hell. The driver started with: You won’t remember me but I remember you well . And then proceeded to describe What...
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- 401 reads
Class Based Analysis (poem first published in Iota 51, Autumn 2000)
His explanation was That when his neighbour came to the door The man attacked him with a phone. So he defended himself With a karate chop— That was...
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What You Will See
is Billy breaking out of his breeze block bunker With a bust of Bloodaxe. You’ll see the concrete Of his tenement crack to reveal corroded filigree...
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- 577 reads