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Huldufolk (Poetry Monthly)
We are not so different, our spirits grow thin in the absence of joy, you wonder how we survive chill lives spent skipping into rocks, cracked by ice...
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Triptych 3: Souls
Children nod heads at the priest as he instructs them on sin and the soul, they arrange their faces to radiate understanding, as they might for an...
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Triptych 2: Virgins
Madonnas of the bus, balance babes on denim clad limbs, all bones and angles, not soft and milky like renaissance paintings, their eyes are luminous...
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Triptych 1: Mass
Mother in a mantilla rubs her spit dampened handkerchief across a child’s face, not clean enough for God, who lives inside and judges us all. She...
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Love Song to the Universe (Poetry Monthly)
i am small a tiny dot shrinking beyond < invisibility... at the centre of the screen ♦ after all the lights are off YOU would not miss me even if...
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This evocative memoir is a
Posted on Wed, 24 May 2017
This evocative memoir is a breath of fresh air - It's our facebook and twitter pick of the day. Well done!
Read full commentPosted in JEAN (From Ribbentrop's Chair)
A lovely review of friendship
Posted on Thu, 18 May 2017
A lovely review of friendship.
Read full commentPosted in Why God Invented Carts
Such a strong, lilting voice
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017
Such a strong, lilting voice in this sad, thought-provoking piece. Some things should not be forgotten. Well done to your father, Elsie - this is our facebook and twitter pick of the day.
Read full commentPosted in Shlamek
A great sense of immediacy.
Posted on Sat, 15 Apr 2017
A great sense of immediacy.
Read full commentPosted in The Stone Fish
Very sinister. The
Posted on Sun, 02 Apr 2017
Very sinister. The strumming tone is a great contrast to the dark content.
Read full commentPosted in Cider and Spider Blues ( Fire Flies part 4}
Great sense of time and place
Posted on Mon, 27 Mar 2017
Great sense of time and place.
Read full commentPosted in 52 Years between Avalons
Beautiful and sad. It
Posted on Sun, 26 Mar 2017
Beautiful and sad. It sometimes happens that in the lingering the love turns into something new and better, that's my experience anyway.
Read full commentPosted in To Linger Too Long
A lovely sense of words
Posted on Sun, 19 Mar 2017
A lovely sense of words blowing about us here and a great sentiment too.
Read full commentPosted in Don Quixote Was Right
Slick writing and a great
Posted on Wed, 22 Feb 2017
Slick writing and a great ending.
Read full commentPosted in Machine
Beautiful imagery. This poem
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
Beautiful imagery. This poem would work for Poetry Monthly too.
Read full commentPosted in Winter Dispossessed.
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