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Alex Smith
Decided to stop talking about it and do it.
Twitter: @AlexCalling79
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At five years of age
you told me that people are shaped like stars and I realised that nobody else gets to see this, gets to see you and what you are in the pauses, in...
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Timber fences; empty freedom.
You were five when the world shifted when you told me you wished we were never made. There was a time, before those words, when the world was broad...
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Wear and tear (IP)
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I’d driven for miles before I’d realised where. The camber of the road should have dumped me home, as always. It's just this normal stuff, like...
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The ends of my world
I can’t feel the presence of a god here so keenly now that I can touch the ends of my world , run a finger across a drumlin of hallowed herringbone...
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Stripling
I’ve never met you. But I want you to love me. You were me before I had formed my open church door of mouth my stripling heartstring. I had forgotten...
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There's such beauty here in
Posted on Tue, 05 Nov 2019
There's such beauty here in all aspects but especially where you don't put your stresses - in your endings like 'stiff unlovely things'. Such delicate touches.
Read full commentPosted in The Language of Dead Flowers
‘Camouflaged better here than
Posted on Sun, 11 Nov 2018
‘Camouflaged better here than in the desert’ Jesus that just encapsulates it. We deify the unknown (as we should) but disregard the known.
Read full commentPosted in Listen
This wonderfully panoramic
Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2018
This wonderfully panoramic piece is our pick of the day. Well done!
Read full commentPosted in Manhatten
Beautiful, powerful and
Posted on Tue, 18 Sep 2018
Beautiful, powerful and replete with loss.
Read full commentPosted in Manhatten
Fantastic writing and a
Posted on Sat, 15 Sep 2018
Fantastic writing and a pertinent message. Wish you all well!
Read full commentPosted in Not One Punch
Poor Wendy. #metoo
Posted on Thu, 19 Jul 2018
Poor Wendy. #metoo
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not Disappointed, I'm Just Angry Chapter 4
I'm gonna get my mum in to
Posted on Mon, 16 Jul 2018
I'm gonna get my mum in to say you're incompetent until you give me an A.
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not Disappointed, I'm Just Angry Chapter 1
It's all gone a bit quiet on
Posted on Sun, 15 Jul 2018
It's all gone a bit quiet on that front recently which makes me wonder what other magnificent fuckery thaty've got up their sleeves. But at least Brexit's been a success so we'll be in safe hands.
Read full commentPosted in I'm Not Disappointed, I'm Just Angry (Introduction)
Sorry! Maybe I’ll do a post
Posted on Wed, 11 Jul 2018
Sorry! Maybe I’ll do a post in Irish and no bugger will be able to translate it! Did you see that some poor English blokes were duped into thinking ‘Tiocfiadh ar la’ means ‘It’s coming home’? It’s an old Irish rebel saying meaning ‘Our day will...
Read full commentPosted in The meeting - good friends
Such depth. Lovely.
Posted on Thu, 05 Jul 2018
Such depth. Lovely.
Read full commentPosted in Rivulets
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