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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
Oh I was transported by this!
Posted on Sun, 24 Jan 2021
Oh I was transported by this! The contrasts and the earthy touch of it is intoxicating. I wish I was as empathetic and as inspired by old tales. I love how you flesh out the details.
Read full commentPosted in St Melangell
Hey there welcome to the site
Posted on Fri, 25 Sep 2020
Hey there welcome to the site! Hope you enjoy reading all the great writing on here!
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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
'There is so much suffering
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2020
'There is so much suffering/in the search for a shore' That tore the heart out of me. Such a considered, powerful piece.
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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
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