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My Four Aunts' Voices

My four aunts’ voices Etched the tunnels of my infant years And sometime before When I was underwater Waiting my turn Ever-multiplying, nothing more...

Four Letters

A man went to a Wizard to buy a magic spell but the man only had 4 pennies in his pocket and so the wizard said to him, "For four pennies I can't...
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Chasing Stars

A perfect night – we scoured the skies as the clouds, finally, broke;

The Silent Cowboy Chapter 2 Part 1

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The Silent Cowboy Chapter 2 1918 The sun’s rays peeked over the Pinos Altos mountains. The faint light lit Rachel’s face as she stood at the stove...

The Medical Inspection

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Bike

A tale that's full of wonderment, But one that you might like, I went to town to buy a hat, Yet came home with a bike.

Realise

April's fool we recognise, The darkness, cold, behind the eyes, So it should come as no surprise, The fool is you, you realise
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Retrospective Drawings

I recognised my body on the fifth floor of the Tate. All that messy yellow paint. Legs and arms spread out like vomit. I was twenty and breathing...

We looked for something past remembrance

We looked for something past remembrance cutting through some fields of emerald green like a ploughed furrow waiting for a seed to grow we looked for...
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Phantommams

Phenomenally woman

Light of my life

You are the light of my life But sometimes..... it's an interrogation lamp. You are the light at the end of the tunnel But sometimes.... it's a train...

I sat beneath a Bobhi tree

I sat beneath a huge tree its shape and size shaded me as if I were its seedling in search of nourishment as if I were the sapling in search of light...
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Raking up the past

“I love you, son.” “I love you, too, dad.” It’s all I can remember of the pained conversation, crouching on the footpath. One of us kissed the other...

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For my sweet little bird, Custard RiP

Rider

In the storm, in the deep, on the rock and in the fire In the storm, in the deep, on the rock and in the fire We were caught in freezing cold hit by...

There

A tired smile, A knowing stare, The times he wished, He wasn't there.
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Liar's Kingdom (7) Moderato Cantabile

Ahh... that's sorted you! Would the two still reading please stand up?

In The Silence

In the silence By Paul McCann I was sItting in a quiet restaurant in the middle of the day then all of a sudden something came over me that stole my...

Mother Of Devotion

Mother Of Devotion By Paul McCann Mother of devotion You are an inspiration for those who suffer alone But it is to you that they would always call...

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