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Well Done!
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
Well Done!
I've been vegan 25 years now, I think. It's getting easier, believe me. And people like you who can articulate your ethics clearly without apportioning blame are going to help the cause. Maybe one day people will come round to...
The way you describe the walk with Bristol is the best thing I've read about dogs ever. Also enjoyed how Grandad washed up the special bowl with his elbow
the way you have made the first part like small steps, words broken by commas, and end with the release of a flowing sentence is wonderful. I love the last two lines
Maybe the dogs are interested in the "Claws of cats of unsound mind" . Or maybe wondering at the waste of so many potentional dog newspaper stands (trees much better than lamp posts as more absorbant) The Christmas tree frenzy does seem to...
I know it is horrid and stressful when you have to keep adding it up as you go, and putting stuff back, but so long as you have enough money food shopping is such fun? Go vegan, then you won't feel guilty about meat. Shopping in the evening,...
So beautiful. The short first lines make me think of how the air seems thicker/heavier when it's cold, so that your breath floats on it. And "break" at the end of the fourth line immediately makes me hear the crunch, as if the line were the snow...
This has the feel of walking, a bit of a struggle. How have you done that? And then the last line I can feel that you have stopped. Is it the long sound of the vowels in "towers" "view" "far" "wide" gives the sense of space? Treating words like...
Where you jolt from boring black and white of papers at meetings to the black and white of badgers, and then sheer off into emotion and thinking about what it left behind, is powerful. Even as you are longing to get back to your own life as...
Well Done!
Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018
Well Done!
I've been vegan 25 years now, I think. It's getting easier, believe me. And people like you who can articulate your ethics clearly without apportioning blame are going to help the cause. Maybe one day people will come round to...
Read full commentPosted in .14 why am I 'vegan'?
The way you describe the walk
Posted on Sat, 20 Jan 2018
The way you describe the walk with Bristol is the best thing I've read about dogs ever. Also enjoyed how Grandad washed up the special bowl with his elbow
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part ten)
the way you have made the
Posted on Thu, 11 Jan 2018
the way you have made the first part like small steps, words broken by commas, and end with the release of a flowing sentence is wonderful. I love the last two lines
Read full commentPosted in Morning mist lifts
Maybe the dogs are interested
Posted on Wed, 10 Jan 2018
Maybe the dogs are interested in the "Claws of cats of unsound mind" . Or maybe wondering at the waste of so many potentional dog newspaper stands (trees much better than lamp posts as more absorbant) The Christmas tree frenzy does seem to...
Read full commentPosted in Where do Christmas Trees go to Die?
I know it is horrid and
Posted on Sun, 07 Jan 2018
I know it is horrid and stressful when you have to keep adding it up as you go, and putting stuff back, but so long as you have enough money food shopping is such fun? Go vegan, then you won't feel guilty about meat. Shopping in the evening,...
Read full commentPosted in Groceries
So beautiful. The short first
Posted on Tue, 27 Jun 2017
So beautiful. The short first lines make me think of how the air seems thicker/heavier when it's cold, so that your breath floats on it. And "break" at the end of the fourth line immediately makes me hear the crunch, as if the line were the snow...
Read full commentPosted in “The Hush of the Snow”
This is so very far from
Posted on Thu, 28 Sep 2017
This is so very far from anything I've experienced, but it made it so real to me. Particularly :
30,000 feet up – beyond blue –
Read full commentwe are untouchable, invincible:
nothing murderous from Mosul,
or killing from Kabul
can...
Posted in Flying Ops
Yes! Particularly like "grasp
Posted on Fri, 22 Sep 2017
Yes! Particularly like "grasp that bootlace, snake-like grip" Also "Where" being at the end of the line. Those last 3 lines are like tiptoe
Read full commentPosted in Impediments to reaching the treasure
This has the feel of walking,
Posted on Mon, 03 Jul 2017
This has the feel of walking, a bit of a struggle. How have you done that? And then the last line I can feel that you have stopped. Is it the long sound of the vowels in "towers" "view" "far" "wide" gives the sense of space? Treating words like...
Read full commentPosted in Mynydd Troed
Where you jolt from boring
Posted on Mon, 25 Feb 2013
Where you jolt from boring black and white of papers at meetings to the black and white of badgers, and then sheer off into emotion and thinking about what it left behind, is powerful. Even as you are longing to get back to your own life as...
Read full commentPosted in Flat Badger
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