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Sundowner

From the _ing verb
Cherry

Flying

A few playful lines.
Cherry

A June afternoon

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Exposed roots

A life beyond one's ken
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208 of my comments have received 221 Great Feedback votes

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Paints a surreal picture.

Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2017

Paints a surreal picture.

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Posted in Dry Wood

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Lovely, sean mcnulty. A

Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017

Lovely, sean mcnulty. A sense of everything slipping through your fingers. Hovers nicely between thoughts and things. I love how you zoom/focus in on the man for a moment then move straight on with your stream of thought. Felt like I was...

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Posted in The Treetops

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Flip-side. :)

Posted on Fri, 04 Aug 2017

Flip-side. :)

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Posted in What poetry is

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Warts an' all rendition. I

Posted on Fri, 11 Aug 2017

Warts an' all rendition. I love the fact you keep this human and individual, because that's where it's at.
Contradictorally (no squiggly red line!) my mind jumped straight to structures: the before and after. Trying to rationally manage and...

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Posted in 2002-05 My memories of working at a hostel for homeless men

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Heard about your dad, too,

Posted on Mon, 01 May 2017

Heard about your dad, too, Elsie. Lots of love. Xxx

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Posted in Shlamek

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This is great. Epic and so

Posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2017

This is great. Epic and so much humanity. It might have been written by H.G. Wells. If there's one thought it leaves as far as the aesthetic goes, having established a meter, it might be worth looking at the penultimate stanza again to see if the...

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Posted in The Melancholy Ballad of the Clockwork Soldier

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An enjoyable piece of

Posted on Mon, 31 Jul 2017

An enjoyable piece of reflective writing, PoppyS.

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Posted in Timeline

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Yes, that last bit. Dougie

Posted on Fri, 21 Jul 2017

Yes, that last bit. Dougie seems to be driving the Volvo at one point.

Good break. We know what happened. Better than telling or showing.

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Posted in Grimms82

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Second para: "Sorry to

Posted on Thu, 20 Jul 2017

Second para: "Sorry to interrupt" says Dougie. Del?

It's on the boil.

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Posted in Grimms81

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Not going to end well.

Posted on Wed, 19 Jul 2017

Not going to end well.

There's a repeated phrase:"on the work surface".

Continuity: "Stabs out his cigarette then lights another with the lit end."

Jaz is in a spot of bother.

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Posted in Grimms 80

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