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I have 581 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 767589 times and 332 of my stories have been cherry picked.
7 of my 104 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 8 votes

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Like Montgomery Clift

By ralph on Mon, 05 Mar 2007

It's building. This angst. Thick black bile. A heavy weather. Avenues empty, paths harden. This heat haze, can be grabbed. I sit in profile. Hopper honed. Framed by skylight,
Autobiography
Poem
Certificate U

Valley Story

By ralph on Tue, 27 Feb 2007

Sickle moon hangs cockeye over the valley. Bubbling pots, sweating out sweet mists. The rosy boy poised proudly for dinner. As sunset hobo shuffles in for his piece.
Western
Poem
Certificate U

From The Boundary

By ralph on Mon, 26 Feb 2007

Victoria Park at dawn a chorus of leaves rustling her from whiskey sleep to dappled day the pipsqueak crows of midwicket long hop dewed worms as she crosses throws a stone
Autobiography
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Shaved Grass: August 2006: St James’s Park

By ralph on Sun, 25 Feb 2007

On shaved grass he lies. Under a bleached sun. Flicking pages like wasps. The dullness of late August, tires and twists hope. In this man-child. Waiting for the change, of turned leaves.
Autobiography
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Certificate U

Long Way From Alice Springs

By ralph on Sat, 24 Feb 2007

he red earth. Like baked blood, glowing behind her. Her gold freckled hands, shield the greenest eyes. Saluting the sun, as it drops. A dead weight. Flaming, in moments. Hemispheric.
Autobiography
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Certificate U

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