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Grimms66
Del fits false number plates to the white Volvo, stolen to order for the job, in the early hours of the Friday morning, from Bearsden. Dougie lounges...
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Grimms65
Angela’s eyes are splintered with not sleeping, she lies scrunched like a question mark at the bottom of the bed, blankets tight around her shoulders...
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Grimms64
Jaz is gagging for the first pint of the day, but is stuck in traffic, enclosed in a bubble of the front seat of a red Volkswagen. Del is driving...
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Grimms63
In the late bloom of spring, snow scars the Old Kilpatrick hills. Seagulls swoop above Angela’s head, screeching along the bins on Risk Street. A...
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Grimms62
Jaz tries to erase the memory of the snivelling shadowy self he’d been earlier by tearing into the booze. But Del isn’t hanging about either. They...
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I guess everyone is a poet or
Posted on Fri, 21 May 2021
I guess everyone is a poet or peasant or both.
Read full commentPosted in In Conversation With Bears
I've wondered about that too.
Posted on Mon, 10 May 2021
I've wondered about that too. Why guys off it (usually drink) for years, suddenly get the call. It's allway there, I guess. A backgruond hum.
Read full commentPosted in Dyin Embers
quite possibly true. Twenty
Posted on Sat, 08 May 2021
quite possibly true. Twenty years ago, I couldn't possibly imagine supporting Scottish independence. Now it's a no-brainer. I hadn't heard of the moron's moron Trump then, or his little trumpeter Johnson. Ingerland is welcome to them. My guess is...
Read full commentPosted in Ingerland My Ingerland
a therapeutic remedy for us
Posted on Thu, 06 May 2021
a therapeutic remedy for us all, jenny. words that soothe.
Read full commentPosted in Resting Place
I like this a lot.
Posted on Sat, 01 May 2021
I like this a lot.
Read full commentPosted in Impaired
I wonder if cats do laugh? I
Posted on Wed, 05 May 2021
I wonder if cats do laugh? I've seen them dreaming. Laughing?
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 6
cheers drew, I tend to breene
Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
cheers drew, I tend to breene through breeges in every story I write in a breengish manner of breenge-noirness
Read full commentPosted in Sooz 5
well, Jenny, you're blessed
Posted on Tue, 27 Apr 2021
well, Jenny, you're blessed to be able to read and write in peace. For those without that gift are poorer in my thnking by far.
Read full commentPosted in Sunrise
It's a cat's life, a bit like
Posted on Sun, 25 Apr 2021
It's a cat's life, a bit like a dog's life, but smarter. keep it going.
Read full commentPosted in "Willow's Tail" 4
I've no knowledge of music
Posted on Wed, 07 Apr 2021
I've no knowledge of music but have heard the name Stravnsky and I might even have heard riot of spring. As your poem shows, listening to music is classless. We all appreciate beauty, but in different ways.
Read full commentPosted in The Riot of Spring (Pictures of Pagan Russia 1913)
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