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Alex Smith
Decided to stop talking about it and do it.
Twitter: @AlexCalling79
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Distilled
Distilled At 23 I sat on a Ronda balcony watching a crane toil through a Spanish day with nothing but bad lager and a good friend. Propped up by a...
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I didn’t take that picture
I didn’t take that picture through the hospital window. The one with the sign in the background, neon-green and sickly. The one with the airplane...
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Ode to a quince
O, so there’s this quince tree near our house, yeah? and the kids think the fruit’s some type of pear and I wanna tell em that it is cos they ask all...
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All that remains
So I tell group that sometimes the tightness feels like I’ve moved into the house across from you but the walls seem further away and I can't...
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Run
watch your hair fall out in those unfaced, blank slate sertraline dreams.
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I'll give it a shot!
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2020
I'll give it a shot!
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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
Such wonderfully contrasting
Posted on Tue, 26 Jan 2021
Such wonderfully contrasting lines stitched together with care and skill. That ugly number squats in the middle.
Read full commentPosted in Screenshot
Bruising, bruising, bruising
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2020
Bruising, bruising, bruising until the final peace. You take us on a journey.
Read full commentPosted in Unbidden Memories of Disgrace
Grand and tender all at once.
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2020
Grand and tender all at once. Such an image.
Read full commentPosted in Inconsequence
Some very affective lines in
Posted on Mon, 21 Sep 2020
Some very affective lines in here. I loved the 'homes were a prison' part and your final line is built up to and crafted really well.
Read full commentPosted in Strange Times
Sure footed and sumptuous. I
Posted on Mon, 13 May 2019
Sure footed and sumptuous. I'm coming back to this again and again.
Read full commentPosted in bluebells
‘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.
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Just gorgeous. I am denied
Posted on Thu, 08 Nov 2018
Just gorgeous. I am denied this pleasure as my little sods always wake up!
Read full commentPosted in not ready to fly yet
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
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