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time travelling
at woods' edge shadow-silt nestles lumps of amber air floating ballrooms where midges dance brief lives away since before words on one side sun warm...
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first day in senior school
Rain heavy air, clear, fresh colours drenched. I walk through clinging grasses like hands welcoming. Summer condensing on twig ends in rowan berries...
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calm before
trunk tethered galaxies of leaves wild weaves, wind owned. Waist high, light grained grasses spray. Green-good air an open mouth, bird-fled, waits...
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a sort of green
in autumn small, three-toed green, lizard dry stampedes down the steps' side dark green cloaking concrete with rustling possibilities or, lushly...
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I am not surprised your
Posted on Mon, 18 May 2020
I am not surprised your grandson loved it! I love it too, I should think EVERYONE would.
Particularly liked the bit about cows, and when Packham had to come up with the panda being invisible, could tell he was thinking on his paws. It is...
Read full commentPosted in A Panda Called Mick
I love :
Posted on Mon, 18 May 2020
I love :
"Catch the cold steel moment
of its brief tangential light"
and "reckless beauty"
It does have the exciting feeling of electric guitar notes flowing into each other, also of how everything seems super intense,...
Read full commentPosted in Hyde Park - Spurn Point
achingly sad
Posted on Wed, 13 May 2020
achingly sad
"I found your obituary today"
"He must miss you still"
"Words not intended for me... beautiful"
and then huge hearted, about the deepest friendship, a union of souls
"We were closer than lovers...
Read full commentPosted in Mila
Are you sure you haven't
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
Are you sure you haven't started on a few unintentionally?
Read full commentPosted in Stone
this one made me think of
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
this one made me think of white witches, wanting to make something good , using nature and time, to heal. I like the smoothing of water vowels too :0)
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She is washing her paws, so,
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2020
She is washing her paws, so, I found the feeling of brittle tension you have made very strong (though seeming delicate, as does a spider web.) Also the respect mixed with revulsion. And "you are not a god, Arachne" a put down to disguise fear ?...
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Every time I try to write a
Posted on Fri, 08 May 2020
Every time I try to write a comment on this Tina walks on the keyboard. Perhaps it is because she is advertisng her spider catching skills :0) I will have another go. I thought this was great!
I am scared of spiders, too. But found this...
Read full commentPosted in Arachne
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to
Posted on Wed, 06 May 2020
I'm sorry, I didn't mean to be rude. I find them scary, like hag fish. You describe their lives so well, particularly the mysterious revelation that compels them to go back to where they started
Read full commentPosted in Lampreys
"what you understand is
Posted on Wed, 06 May 2020
"what you understand is darkness" Powerful! Those first four lines are so sad. No possibility of nature v nurture
Read full commentPosted in Lampreys
covagants :0) Or is
Posted on Tue, 05 May 2020
covagants :0) Or is that mixing root languages?
Read full commentPosted in A Literary Squirrel
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