The lilac is out
By lib
Some poems and (very) short stories.
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Invitation
One afternoon in an art gallery. Two days at your Gran’s by the sea. Tea and cake in the expensive café at the top of the department store. Half an hour running across London
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Stroanfreggan
I hope I remember the house on the third cattle grate, bread bin post box and deep stone wall. The school room where children, miles from home, once learnt grammar,
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I’ve just had an apostrophe
The floor under the window is getting lighter but when I quote Bob Hoskins in ‘Hook’, you switch on the light to write a speedy poem on a page already containing
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For mind reading
There’s nothing I can determine from the way you hold your coffee, or the slice of yellow in your iris, so I hold the bracelet you bought me, glass redcurrants skished in my palm.
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