Inspiration point (IP)
This week's Inspiration Point is to write a poem or story that features a musical instrument. Old guitars, haunted pianos, lost mandolins, talking maracas...I look forward to reading about them all!
Inspiration point
Montage of my sons. IP
Quicksilver hands as sharp as eyes. Your Trojan smiles flinty edged, your jawlines merge with the fizz and pop of consonant and vowel. American and Anglicised.
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Centralian
The soil is boiling. Noxious fumes rise from fissures. Ice cubes and air-fresheners Are thrown down from the mansion windows And we are expected to...
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Elegy To the Worker
The bricks of the human world are dying. Others are being born as we speak, But others still are dying And the world is dying and changing with them...
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A ‘Mayfly’ Day … (IP)
– early evening swarm above the stream – mating mayflies shimmer; with the setting sun eggs descend, mayfly die, and are no more until … nymphs hatch...
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The Protest
The human being is an inherently contentious creature. Seven billion rock-wall eyes; Eyes staring belligerently down seven billion sharp noses; Noses...
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