Picks of the Month
November
Rooks
Rooks Past the backbone’s second hump and hollow hawthorns, a foam of brackish snow and distant light. I heard them first, a row of hanging rooks –...
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- 2528 reads
September
Something You'll Have To Live With
Part One
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- 15 comments
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- 1916 reads
Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)
'into the darkness… light' a winter Wednesday open-mic in a dingy pub in Pontefract or was it Halifax? I don’t rate poetry but if the beer’s good and...
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- 1220 reads
August
Illicit Exercise
I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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- 4513 reads
July
Pins (21)
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- 2579 reads
June
Pad Life: Summer's Here!
It's toes weather... Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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- 4885 reads
Iriecat
First garden tremble on kiss soft paddy paws to spine shake yawls I held you, I hold you your father You circle chased a squirrel, roared with joy on...
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- 3337 reads
May
To the 185,000 retirees of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, in commemoration of the expansion of Bristol Airport
For the 185,000 retirees of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Commemoration of the Expansion of Bristol Airport, February 2022. Let the cash flow...
After Gyles' Quay
Der killin everyone in de town dese days. Dey killt dat businessman cause he wus helpin de Loyalists. Dey killt a man outside de snoooker hall cause...
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- 1375 reads
April
The Pub
It was the sort of pub that you wouldn’t take your wife into. Full of men with flat noses and either a pencil or a cigarette behind their ear. Some...
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- 4460 reads