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layers
Day's doorway closes, people rush along pavements, time cut short as thoughts before sleep ; a car slams shut, cocoons a growing warmth whose wings...
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starlings
a dashing sky scatter of black stars swirl, mass spread, film fine specks lead, loop, pass swoop round; rain-sound wings mimic the world's mind (...
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appeal
on amber sheen of polished wood apricots spill, cheek soft and sweet and from a terracotta pot geranium flowers lift hearts when days sink down in...
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recipe
Small birds flicker thick, make bushes quiver shimmering silence with bright chirruping. Blackberries, swollen seconds full of sun. (Try one, to...
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brambles
blackberries, swollen seconds full of sun I pick, to burst sweet on my tongue, now and now. In overgrown long disused school ground brambles slow arc...
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reminded me of being jealous
Posted on Sat, 30 May 2020
reminded me of being jealous of someone when i first started school and the teacher said she was away with the fairies. i was always checking to see if she sparkled, but she was always sad. it is a good way of finding people like me, if they are...
Read full commentPosted in Away with the Fairies
Enjoyed this one very much.
Posted on Fri, 22 May 2020
Enjoyed this one very much. too!
This is genius :
“So, our Aunties are all sitting around knitting and drinking tea and things. Then, if the walruses get in, they don’t know how to deal with them and might get eaten?”
Read full commentPosted in The Walrus and the Aunteater
Same as everyone, enjoyed
Posted on Sun, 17 May 2020
Same as everyone, enjoyed this a lot.
What struck me is how you were getting to know your father not because he was in your life, but because you found him in yourself. Missing someone you had never had, holding them inside yourself,...
Read full commentPosted in the old geezer
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...
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