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27 July: for dVerse
I Might Deny Writing This I coughYou coughWe’re both coughing with Covid In the darkDown the stairsTo the fridgeA late night snack and I open the door, coldLight spills across the floorFeast or famineIt’s an empty wind that’s blowing. MayoMustardChutneyCapers One eggA pearNo tasteNo flavour KimchiPicklesRoquefortGrapes This is nutsI coughYou coughWe’re both coughing with Covid…
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27 July: dVerse Quadrille
Great-Great-Grandad’s Candleholder it sits there on the mantlepiecerich patina-wrapped,a bottom-weighted brass candleholder.the type used on a ship. gravity always keeps it upright,not that we make waves in the living room,but it’s a family heirloom,and we’re deep-seatedin our nautical gauge. dVerse Quadrille #156: include the word “wrap”, 44-words sans title. WikiArt Image: Shipwreck, by Ivan Aivazovsky, Original…
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26 July: They
They have returned to the limed white wallstumbling over with bougainvillaea,and sunlight brightas bare electric lights where nights are cold as a cellar floorand days are warmed bythe generous breathof honeyed trees and a girl’s hips and feetare born to the rhythmsof salsa and merenguesultry and spicy they are back homewhere the Andes throb with…
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23 July: Pot-of-Rice
21 July: a dog named pot-of-rice He can’t eat more chips becausehis skin is full, and when he gets a dog, he’ll call it pot-of-rice.he loves rice. She gathers stones on the beach. some to throw.some to talk to there’s sand between her toes. They cut paper into tiny pieces andpretend it’s raining. ©Misky 2022…
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22 July: July Diaries
20 July: Heat Wave He say he’s never seen mewith wet hair before. and the patio is too hotfor ants to walk on, and is it okay to step on them? She knocks on the bedroom door, and askswhen Nana and Farfar won’t be sick and says, please fix this boiling house. They they’re both…
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18 July: London Two Ways
17 July: London Two Ways (30ºC, and my flowers are dying) He is at the London Aquarium.hands-on and poking starfish. singing Baby Shark song says King Louie is biggerthan that shark She is at the matinee of Frozen.says it’s all wrong Elisa doesn’t have dark skin.and the singing is too loud. and she says Nana…
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15 July: Centerparcs Longleat 31°C
15 July: Centerparcs Longleat 31°C He threw his soft toy penguinin the swimming pool. swim, he shouts.his penguin sinks. it takes three days to dry a penguin. She whispers. every word.and tilts her headand smiles. one must choose to listen. They are crying. they don’t want to go home. why are we all sick and…
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12 July: Centerparcs Longleat 32°C
12 July: The July Diaries (Centerparcs Longleat 32°C) He loves sticks!sticks!he fills his strollerwith sticks. what’s that?what’s a pinecone?is it an ice cream cone?why not. says he’s too hot today –has taken all his clothes off,and now we can’t find them. he agrees to wear his Spider-Man undies. She says Yes Yes Yes I know…to…
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11 July: July Diaries
11 July (mostly inside today) He is afraid of the big bird in the garden,it wants to eat him, he says. and says it’s too hot outside buthe’ll have toast anyway. cereal. no milk. no spoon. and he’s washing is hands inhis drinking glass. More water, he says. She likes Danish cheese, and her legsare…
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9 July: Little Hampton Beach
9 July ( A Day at Little Hampton Beach) He says why are they red,those aren’t grapes – grapes are green. and he doesn’t want a red applebecause Snow White keeps eating them,and then she is dead again. his sister eats all of his grapes. She is dressed for the beach. Misha and the bearare…
