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April shower
Sun is shattered by dark tree branches, splinters glint scattered on twig tips, diamond- dusting downy oval honescuckle leaves' warm green-blue,...
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Win
this meeting of trees and rushes glows, peaceful as a holy place warbler songs shimmer warm blue air where speckled wood butterflies dance from spine...
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Guernica, Stalingrad, Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol...
Reporters list atrocities suggesting which might qualify as war crimes, while Western leaders' words slide over blood, too afraid of falling in to...
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Listening to the News 2/3/22
Does sound of our clapping drown out the bombs exploding in your homes? Our politicians stand shoulder to shoulder with ambassadors come to beg for...
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"Man has lost the capacity to foresee and to forestall. He will end by destroying the Earth" Albert Schweitzer
we breathed each other's breath. It was enough once you sheltered within me. We were one before fences. I grew to know burning, soon you chose to...
Have just heard on the news
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
A few days after you posted this, have just heard on the news about mothers, pregnant women and children queueing for supplements to help with the malnutrition caused by Netanyahu's blockade. Bombed. One of the 8 children killed is a little one...
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Death
Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah
Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025
Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah was ok, hope she is, still. If I were a high up in her country, would be working my socks off to get a bomb finished before that happened again. Hope Sofi's back is better by now, and that hasn't put her off hydrangeas...
Read full commentPosted in If I Were a Fish
From fireflies to fig sap,
Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025
From fireflies to fig sap, imagining Marlene Dietrich in a bus shelter to beating Lyme's disease, Turlough's diary entry for June is a great read, which is why it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
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This part struck me most
Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025
This part struck me most strongly, as not talked about on the news etc
Read full comment"Yes, mothers often pay the price
with holy wartime sacrifice:
in flight, miscarried embryos!
Quite slow as ethnic cleansing goes,
but...
Posted in Fifty Shades of Death
Enjoyed very much, too. How
Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2025
Enjoyed very much, too. How lovely for you to see what your cat got up to :0) Thank you for sharing your memory
Read full commentPosted in Tibbs Out On The Tiles
Such a sense of being an
Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025
Such a sense of being an imposter. I guess Fox is a part of the narrator, as opposed to everyone else who belongs to a strange world. How you have office politics, and what's for tea, mixed in with memories of another planet is really good.
Read full commentPosted in The Vale - Part 1 (c)
Wonderful IP response, thank
Posted on Sat, 05 Jul 2025
Wonderful IP response, thank you!
Read full commentPosted in The lisping god of small things
This completely wonderful,
Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025
This completely wonderful, incandescently genius story from Drew is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can
Read full commentPosted in Born on the 4th of July
Your mother is so brave, for
Posted on Thu, 03 Jul 2025
Your mother is so brave, for having done as he asked, as he needed. Imagine, had he died, and she had not lain in the grass with him, she would have felt it must be her fault. But she could not have any blame for giving him a moment of peace. She...
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Recently I have been shaking
Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025
Recently I have been shaking so much, and don't know, wonder if it is thinking of this. It is the trappedness that makes it seem worse, being held prisoner till agreeing to give up what's yours, being encouraged to this end by starvation, no...
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