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I have 75 stories published in
3 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 128007 times
and 42 of my stories have been cherry picked.
10 of my 166 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 9 votes
Swep Lovitt
2nd book SOMETIMES THE WORLD IS TOO BEAUTIFUL, 2011, Texas Review Press. Amazon, barnesandnoble, Book Depository.
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Miko
Woke early, rose Worked on a poem 2 cups of coffee On repeat St. Vincent Went to wake you A cup of hot, black coffee In hand, you pulled The covers...
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- 722 reads
Brookhaven
Jerene brought Swep V and Cannon To Brookhaven for a few days. The boys explored the yard, the back lot, Pilfered the playhouse, the attic, Dragging...
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- 1873 reads
Report To The Boys
Yes, I crossed over. Saw Maha and Granddaddy Drinking coffee, under trees. I have loved You Swep-- You Jeremy--each and every day Since you were born...
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- 699 reads
Fifteen-Years Later
Jerene´s just moved to a house, A nice area, that Jeremy bought for her. ¨I must´ve done something right.¨ She sold our house. Has gotten a dog. We...
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Beth Hart, Tremendous Blues
But Hart not exactly my type. I start her DVD, "Front and Center," 2018 NYC. Cruise, familiar Songs, until Hart launches into Tell Her You Belong To...
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¨i thought of the ruby red
Posted on Mon, 26 Aug 2019
¨i thought of the ruby red colour when i lost the baby. it came dripping out of me, but i already knew.¨
and so another tale of the disenfranchised, those without a voice. in my poems a key word is essence, and so in your prose, a stripped...
Read full commentPosted in good tears and bad.
they will alwys be yours
Posted on Mon, 12 Aug 2019
they will alwys be yours
good story
Read full commentPosted in Katy, A Ghost Story (IP)
a grim look into the way time
Posted on Sat, 08 Sep 2018
a grim look into the way time carries us along, the way the relationships of our youth are forever.
Read full commentPosted in two-faced
hi, not to be argumentative,
Posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2018
hi, not to be argumentative, seeking discourse on your poem and not adversary, insert is a smart woman and she sees your poem as if written by a child. i don't, though your speaker seems to be naive, perhaps simple in a good way, which is why a...
Read full commentPosted in In your shoes
take out :A life made bland
Posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2018
take out :A life made bland by ease." and see how it reads. reads cleanly, clearly, (apparenly my favorite words of the moment) to me.
have to repeat, "Have you seen a real tree?" not only is it overkill, but it could be read as a bit...
Read full commentPosted in In your shoes
hi, would cut the editorial
Posted on Sat, 23 Jun 2018
hi, would cut the editorial "A life made bland by ease."
would cut "Have you seen a real tree?" as overkill.
good poem Di.
Read full commentPosted in In your shoes
the best piece i've read
Posted on Thu, 07 Jun 2018
the best piece i've read since my partial return to abc. nothing extraneous. always low-key, and just right. you create his reality, which, after all, is what many of us less obtrusively do for ourselves. high regard for this piece, Celticman.
Read full commentPosted in lookers
did you mean "skin on skin"
Posted on Tue, 10 Feb 2015
did you mean "skin on skin"
perhaps cut the last line, your title pretty much has it covered.
"going out somewhere just to come home" is excellent
throughout a fine ear, fine musicality.
perhaps cut "in bed", waking...
Read full commentPosted in These I Have Loved
probably would profit you to
Posted on Mon, 09 Feb 2015
probably would profit you to cut the first 2 lines.
and perhaps cut "hands that once had baked"
i couldn't keep up with the typing for your prolificness.
swep
Read full commentPosted in Room Six - Tooting Bec Asylum...1982