Category: Unicorn Challenge
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26 May: for 26.05 Unicorn Challenge
A Spar and Rigging Some days he wanted to stay. Other days he just stared at the bridge. Portree could do that to you. Summer turned it oddly condensed with holidaymakers. They filled every table and every bed. July. August. Like a restless meridian. He compared it to living underwater. An aquarium. And God disowned…
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20 May: for Unicorn Challenge
Pier’s End A boy jumps into briny fumesat the end of the pier, pastthe old Brighton Rock shop, where dissolved sea saltis a hollow sound of wind,and where calliope tunes and foammix with past tideson the pebble beach, and seagulls juggle the air. Written for Unicorn Challenge . This took on a direction of its own liking.…
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12 May: It’s Nightlife
The heat of the day continues to rise from the pavement – the night, fragrant-warm with jasmine and night phlox. A woman concealed behind lace opens a window to catch the breeze, candlelight guided across the walls. Her children twist and turn in their bedsheets, sleep held in the eyes of sky. It’s humid. The…
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5 May: A Mouse’s Dream Diary
An Entry from a Mouse’s Dream Diary So it’s true. Mice do dream. Of drowning. A drowning dream. This is the season of water. Of fractious storms and troubled air. I run along the floor, pressing close to the skirting boards and wall. Avoiding wires and cords and shoes, baskets, books and magazines. Slipping under…
It's Still Life 