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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The sun and seas a jolly cast?

The sun and seas a jolly cast As is the sail tied to the mast And those laggards anchored Without a future or a past… Who are they to sink then? To the bottom of a glass

It was in self-defense, I’m quite sure

In his defense it was said, she would curiously Spy from the bay windows, like A latter-day Misses Marple Everyone was a suspect, every parcel. Became a crime of illicit passion…

Fagan or scrooge

Oh lord; I’m a dragon on prescription With fire waters too tame. Oh don’t get scared, babe There are no ice waters in my veins. But, oh babe I’m counting on you

Evening primrose…

Happy the hour, between Night and death The pause, taken: Too a single living, breath... Here I’ll open my breast Upon a moths, calling… Like an evening primrose.

I remember my own insanities…

I remember my own insanities… Oh, what presence attends our emptiness … this…? I’ve dived down drowning with these daylight thieves

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