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Breath
I listen hard to hear the low drone carved from air drifting with the wind across space and time a sound from those distant hidden places where quiet...
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Ice
I think of it out there, at night creaking, weighty, floating dreaming of the next transformation hydrogen hydrogen oxygen loosening bonds the slow...
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Revision
Retake students gaze, nod, scribble they must do better must grasp how to go beyond the formula ‘What can I write instead of: this poem is to...
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Remembering Burnt Norton
We sat in the folly and light May rain tip, tip, tapped through new-green leaves on old trees a mingled scent of soil, bluebells, mildew, memory the...
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Measles
It was an afternoon service. Mother herded us back along the cow path pointing out rosehips in the hedgerow their bitter pithiness sucked moisture...
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Glistening moments contained
Posted on Sat, 30 Jan 2016
Glistening moments contained by controlled structure, you make these moments ours too.
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A horrible experience, I was
Posted on Sun, 17 Jan 2016
A horrible experience, I was once crippled by them but haven't had one for years, so it will probably pass, if that helps at all.
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From the freedom of the sky
Posted on Thu, 14 Jan 2016
From the freedom of the sky to what lies at the heart of things, wonderful in its layers.
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A stunning sense of place and
Posted on Wed, 23 Dec 2015
A stunning sense of place and time and timelessness. Beautiful images.
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I wonder what the incident
Posted on Sat, 19 Dec 2015
I wonder what the incident was? An intriguing read. The red room has been a nightmairish place of transformation in literature, is this futuristic one? I look forward to more.
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Energetic and touching -
Posted on Sun, 13 Dec 2015
Energetic and touching - between the sureal moments. Would love to hear you read it.
Read full commentPosted in 'The first date' a chapter from my new novel 'And?'
Sheesh, jealous? Me?
Posted on Sat, 05 Dec 2015
Sheesh, jealous? Me?
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Scary times indeed.
Posted on Thu, 03 Dec 2015
Scary times indeed.
Read full commentPosted in Trump 2k16 (Or, Why I'm So Afraid Of Terrorism)
You're a spring chicken from
Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015
You're a spring chicken from a timeless well of inspiration, celticman. :)
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Kind of grotesque.
Posted on Sun, 22 Nov 2015
Kind of grotesque. Interesting to use the language of birth in this moment of transformation. Such striking images and heart-felt end. Makes me queasy, but I'll have to read again.
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