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You and Me--forever--Donnie
Donnie stretched himself out on the marital bed he’d once shared with Ann and stared at the ceiling. Waited for the pills to kick in. Smirnoff choked...
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You and Me—forever—Anne.
You and Me—forever—Anne. Anne kept her eyes shut and waited for her number to be called. A whiff of cigarettes made her grimace, even though it was a...
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Penthouse
‘Awright lads,’ Cooper’s da was bald with a booming voice. He shouted a derisory greeting as we dodged furniture in the living room. He’d the comfy...
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JOHN MCLACHLAN (Kojak) 1962-2011
Tony Quinn opened the living-room window and shouted me into Kojak’s house on Lilac Avenue. It had one of those boxy silver wheelchair ramps taking...
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The Reckoning
Their turf roof sunk into the sides and the hut staggered like a drunken soldier. It stood out from the others because it lay on the knob of earth...
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I'm sure there's a metaphor
Posted on Wed, 27 Aug 2014
I'm sure there's a metaphor here. Spit it out.
Read full commentPosted in Spit Out the Bugs in Your Mouth
Kicked up a gear. Her turning
Posted on Mon, 16 Jun 2014
Kicked up a gear. Her turning on him is good, but maybe express some of the doubts about Ian earlier. A kind of layering effect. His violence towards her is a good way of keeping it real.
Read full commentPosted in Ch26: Stolen July 12th part 2
silence, is often a pause
Posted on Sat, 31 May 2014
silence, is often a pause before the encore.
Read full commentPosted in War of Sounds
it's the almost that gets you
Posted on Fri, 15 Oct 2021
it's the almost that gets you. the unexplained.
Read full commentPosted in Esther Cox
I'm not far off, I watch
Posted on Tue, 12 Oct 2021
I'm not far off, I watch Dementia & Us and I'm not sure what side of the & I'm on. Great poem, you know you dendrtes and your shorter axonal length, and from that I take strength.
Read full commentPosted in The Senile Neurologist
great photo. great poem,
Posted on Mon, 11 Oct 2021
great photo. great poem, jenny.
Read full commentPosted in Secrets Of Wistman Woods
It's got a noirish feel,
Posted on Tue, 05 Oct 2021
It's got a noirish feel, whatever that means.
Read full commentPosted in Strangers on a Street
no journey too long or short,
Posted on Thu, 30 Sep 2021
no journey too long or short, Jenny, like your poem.
Read full commentPosted in Stone Loach
I read a book about a talking
Posted on Wed, 29 Sep 2021
I read a book about a talking mongoose (The Hauting of Alma Feilding) talking cats are so cliched. But it's the way you tell 'em.
Read full commentPosted in Pad Life: The Rock of Reality
never heard of caddis, but
Posted on Wed, 29 Sep 2021
never heard of caddis, but the invisible threads ties us all together. gritty.
Read full commentPosted in I, Caddis
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