Month: Jan 2018
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dVerse Quadrille #49
A Road and Pork Happiness We’re at a lay-by on the old road to Dover. It’s unexpectedly spring in January, and we dine sitting on folding chairs, eating pork pies and sipping iced tea. This is happiness, you say. Poetry. An oyster’s life. This is a poem, I say. dVerse Quadrille #49 (44…
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Sunday Whirl #336
Dreams Slip There’s a band of rain sweeping in dense and horizontal, flat as me laying on this lumpy bed that tramples my dreams and ransoms sleep. It’s 2am. I’m awake. Staring at the cat. Its amber eyes are aimed right me. We exchange looks — that cat feels like dark magic. It belong in…
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Poetic Asides: “Sick”
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dVerse Poison
To a Tanacetum Parthenium Sweet daisy aster, my ornamental dream. Speak to me, Featherfew. My faithful Feverfew, release your cool hand on my head my head, this chewing throb. Be of purpose, sweet daisy aster. Curative febrifugia — white button blossom rays. Shine on me, disks of scented bright. dVerse Poisonous Plants
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Twiglet #60
Deep It’s the last finger of winter scouring the moon full and flat. I swept tongue-cold spiderwebs from the air this morning. Wisps of meadow fog on the drift, cat-whisker soft. It’s a boundless deep. Twiglet #60: a boundless deep
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Haibun 22.01.18
Her Lunchbox Spoke Volumes But that business of a first kiss was hard for my little sister — she hit Christopher on the head with her metal lunchbox (mine was Royal Stewart red plaid; her’s was bright flowers). Between us, she was always the softer one. I lived in jeans and summer t-shirts, even when…
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Sunday Whirl #335
Stood There I stood there under bare-knuckle trees, a final buckling void to spring. Stood there admiring a white vinyl sky. Listening to rain-soothed birdsong cutting deep grooves. Chimes sung by design. One tune. None other. I stood there, like a sponge. Soaked. The word “plethora” is like two left shoes; it just…
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A dVerse Response
Unalone I have a friend in stillness, in the dark, the cold of snow, the gaudy days, the nights of destitution, in the quiet, a moment, … almost, the sweet voice of wind, and old skin. That friend, nay, that confusion is a remote shadow, scattering my thoughts. I am unalone. I Have…
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dVerse Golden Shovel
To Break a Stone Let them meet. Would they laugh. Let them find their way through tempers. Not a pen, nor ink, scarlet and bloodied. Make them talk. A voyage in understanding. Me and you, he and him, her and she, let a conversation talk us out of our stone hardness. dVerse Bold…
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Twiglet #59
Luisa She collects white feathers in the garden, scolds bees as they steal nectar from purple clover. She keeps cookie crumbs in her pockets, ketchup stains on her favourite dress. One shoe’s always untied, she’s not sure how to re-tie it, hair clips hang loose in her long black curls, those curls are from her…
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