Mark Heathcote

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I have 597 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
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Mark Heathcote

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Raspberry canes

In and out the raspberry canes On a jack frost bitten day With nothing more than twine, And knife To earn my daily pay Bending back the line of whips From John O’ Groats to Landsend

Lions lie down like corndogs

Lions lie down like corndogs eaten by the dark As cities cats and mongrels howl in the park A radio hums like a distant hymn for freedom To begin its soul searching beginning s in Edam.

In these cormorant hours spent swift

I’ve never begun to understand, The sea changing patterns beholden, With holding, onto a woman’s hand, No matter how many times Unwilled she can be emboldened.

Messed up riches

A kind of country song!

Through all our unending time

For however many tears We’ve both tried not to cry For however many years I’ve lived trying not to die Praying, wanting, not to lie Yearning, endlessly, longing,

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