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Sol Monath (mud month in old english)
frost a cold kindness makes scars of passage reopened each day numb, unhealing. New sun brings back feeling warms clenched stone knuckles and knee...
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Chutes of Spring
*/ Freshet chill blue ceiling full clouds uncoil loosedrops cold spool, pool till slow supple surface slope-called, slips dimples ripple, demure...
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February low tide
He comes in, rosy cheeks smooth-cool to mine as the inside of half cockles we used to collect on the beach as big as his hands, then. The shells we...
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finding peace
As I fish fur from my coffee mug the rhythm of your purr's like the chug of the ferry bringing people home or strangers, who from far places come...
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left over
these are the left over years life reduced, the womb dry. If I were a vegetable I would be limp but I am stiffening, from the fingers in and my...
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your granddaughter must be so
Posted on Thu, 08 Oct 2020
your granddaughter must be so chuffed to have your fun poem in praise of her achieving this useful skill :0) I had to read the whole thing after those brilliant first 2 lines
Read full commentPosted in Attacking a satsuma like Jack Horner
That would be a perfect way
Posted on Tue, 06 Oct 2020
That would be a perfect way to go. Enjoyed reading, found comforting, thankyou. Hope your sciatica is easing?
Read full commentPosted in The Nova Scotia I Know
Great choice :0)
Posted on Tue, 29 Sep 2020
Great choice :0)
Read full commentPosted in Everyone's going to the opticians
this is so sad!
Posted on Wed, 30 Sep 2020
this is so sad!
"I am a robin tricked
to sing at night by false light"
I wish I spoke with the rarity of frankinsence :0) I love that idea. Unlike you, though, far from being an essential, the oil of my words is...
Read full commentPosted in Deus Ex Machina
such a warm poem, made me
Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020
such a warm poem, made me feel so happy for you :0) I enjoyed this bit particularly
warbling on
for hours and hours
like chiff chaffs
in perfect togetherness
Read full commentPosted in After Dark
I like this line very much :
Posted on Thu, 01 Oct 2020
I like this line very much : " I have never been myself"
also how you describe the nest, which made me think it is made of sparks, and what a let down life must be after that as your first memory
the bird in your photo looks like it...
Read full commentPosted in Hamerkop
beautiful image, you took me
Posted on Sun, 27 Sep 2020
beautiful image, you took me instantly from my computer
Read full commentPosted in Little Dyke Lake - Nova Scotia
this makes me think you are
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2020
this makes me think you are down by the sea, painting a coming storm? Reminded me of being an art student having to cope with paper blowing away and going soggy if it rained :0) I guess that would be a good thing for Van Gogh, painting outdoors...
Read full commentPosted in Escape Into Art
I really like how you
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2020
I really like how you describe afternoons as "the soft length of falling radiance" almost like a shroud wrapping the possibilities of the day, as they pass
It must be so hard for you both, not being with the person you love most
Read full commentPosted in Afterglow
This is so full of life! I
Posted on Wed, 23 Sep 2020
This is so full of life! I love how you concentrate on the children, treasure of India's future, rather than the (very beautiful) building from the past
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