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this is one of your intense
Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019
this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...
Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"
"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....
I like this more and more each time I read it. I feel like I am stalking your ideas, though, as there was a flock on the buddleia outside. I don't remember seeing so many before. You convey the feeling of their indomitability/fragility really...
You listen to World Service too! Sometimes cannot sleep al night and it is comforting listening to them talking, knowing they are al awake too. You have conjured the teetering fragile feeling of being very tired and unable to sleep, like an...
brilliant! Particularly with relation to countries and old conflicts, like an arm breaking free of the ties, flailing around. It makes me think of the world now, the hurts of the past reinforcing present troubles, history growing restless, like...
waters flooding everywhere but none that's fit to drink
agree about paraphrases however the water water line is something everyone knows like a nursery rhyme, it's gone beyond being a poem, it's part of the bones of our language now. So...
this is one of your intense
Posted on Sat, 10 Aug 2019
this is one of your intense mood creations, the stillness (I hope not loneliness) in this place, and the weather/life disturbing outside. And the wondering what conversation caused the ringing in your ears. Covers the same weather as Jenny's...
Read full commentPosted in In perpetuity
Brilliant description of
Posted on Wed, 07 Aug 2019
Brilliant description of incoming tide being "the long push"
"pincered beasts and tube-dwelling tentacled lagoon worms" makes them sound like fantasy monsters :0) I like your contrast of the diferent uses of shells, too. So many details....
Read full commentPosted in Tentacled Lagoon Worm
or maybe you outgrew it. Or
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
or maybe you outgrew it. Or life's lexicon discovered you had been mislabelled all the time
Read full commentPosted in Nameless
"cardinal red
Posted on Thu, 01 Aug 2019
"cardinal red
laced and wired with veins and arteries,
a muscular bomb" this is so vivid!
Read full commentPosted in Rubatosis
I like this more and more
Posted on Wed, 31 Jul 2019
I like this more and more each time I read it. I feel like I am stalking your ideas, though, as there was a flock on the buddleia outside. I don't remember seeing so many before. You convey the feeling of their indomitability/fragility really...
Read full commentPosted in Painted Ladies
You listen to World Service
Posted on Tue, 30 Jul 2019
You listen to World Service too! Sometimes cannot sleep al night and it is comforting listening to them talking, knowing they are al awake too. You have conjured the teetering fragile feeling of being very tired and unable to sleep, like an...
Read full commentPosted in 3am
brilliant! Particularly with
Posted on Mon, 29 Jul 2019
brilliant! Particularly with relation to countries and old conflicts, like an arm breaking free of the ties, flailing around. It makes me think of the world now, the hurts of the past reinforcing present troubles, history growing restless, like...
Read full commentPosted in It should be easy to forget
Oh Jane WOW
Posted on Wed, 03 Jul 2019
Oh Jane WOW
I just read this, can't convey how brilliant sufficiently as don't have time, but WOW
Read full commentPosted in A Man Riding the Tube Train
waters flooding everywhere
Posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2019
waters flooding everywhere but none that's fit to drink
agree about paraphrases however the water water line is something everyone knows like a nursery rhyme, it's gone beyond being a poem, it's part of the bones of our language now. So...
Read full commentPosted in The Plastic Mariner
wow, that really conveys a
Posted on Wed, 12 Jun 2019
wow, that really conveys a fierce sea! "Feral roaring" is fantastic
Read full commentPosted in The Ocean
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