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angelica (after reading Onemorething's beautiful poem)
Reality is a trap. In this garden no sun warms. Underground, worms squirm in a rootless world as tongues before words. But then, there, at the back,...
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pool, october
light-leap ripples make laughter lines tickle snake swooping willow bough's moss green crossing bright, gold leaf lined pool below, where rain, held...
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bird feeder
Slog uphill, from Bargain Buys trolley-tugging a big bag, heart heavy with world's worries hard to change till become aware of pigeons, jackdaws,...
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gather
Pooled, this mild September day from waves of work (or guilt when not) once each year picking blackberries from prickly cataracts of free sweetness...
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something in the air
Flies weave a buzzing basket of still warm light. Hairline rainbow cracks in space above paths, like mistakes leave unseen tethers of regret, sticky...
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This is wonderful, like Jane
Posted on Sun, 26 Jan 2025
This is wonderful, like Jane Austen, getting ready to untangle all the strings :0)
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 24
You are doing a brilliant job
Posted on Sat, 11 Jan 2025
You are doing a brilliant job with Perfidia's character. This dinner party is really well set up for maximum tension :0) And, as always, you take great care with descriptions of food. Going back into this world you have created is always so...
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Missing Tail" 23
a site about cetaceans says "
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
yes! a site about cetaceans says " the part of their brain which processes emotions (limbic system) appears to be more complex than our own "
one of the horrifically incomprehensible things about humans, for me, is how we value emotions...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 49
I like how I don't know if
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
I like how I don't know if this is about an author, like Tolkien, and a character they created, or about a reader who seeks a character they have read and re-read through a lifetime. There's a magical feeling in this poem
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Glad Jeannie is involved
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Glad Jeannie is involved again. This story is becoming driven by female characters!
Read full commentPosted in Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand) (Dead Reckoning series - Part 45)
Oh, poor Vanessa! She will
Posted on Fri, 24 Jan 2025
Oh, poor Vanessa! She will want to drive round to check under all the bridges where she thinks homeless people might be, won't she? Will she rescue Spencer, or will he rescue her? And the wanting to communicate with whales and dolphins! Is that...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 49
Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god,
Posted on Thu, 16 Jan 2025
Pat is brutal :0) ‘Oh my god, he’s jumped,’ said Pat, holding her hands together in a prayer position and lifting them up to the tip of her hooked nose. ‘He’ll just be a pile of wires and gubbins on the patio. Stop looking, Vanessa, fetch me a...
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for You - Part 48
Very well deserved Pick of
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Very well deserved Pick of the Week.
I really like this description : "The lipstick was a deep Doraldina crimson. He popped open the clutch and found face powder. Both were common brands. Nothing special. California, the department-store...
Read full commentPosted in The Patrolman - 4 (2/2)
Fabulous, again.
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
Fabulous, again.
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Beautiful writing. Not only
Posted on Fri, 10 Jan 2025
Beautiful writing. Not only the rhythm, but the portrait of Lenora. I loved the detail of heels wobbling on plush carpet, too
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