Tag: home
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22 February: for FOWC – Home
Under Red Roof Tiles The roof has red tiles.They’d be happier bakingin sun, Spain or Morocco,but instead they’re herein February. Mist and cold. The doors are white woodwith brass knobs, bevelledglass. The floor waxed pine.Apple trees, bare right now.Plums, not one fruit last year. This is my house. My home,although a home is anywhere.But it…
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Miz Quickly’s Day 6 (take two)
A Simple Life I am at home on this fertile foot, my own place above the sea. This is my small plot, veiled sombre and fair. I hold it close as life, a treasured lock of hair. And I tend it, as if in its obedience. Taking to its roots and tubers, the carrots and…
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Miz Quickly Celebrates Bloomsday
Bloomsday I’d triumphed over that hill, the one I could never manage when the weather welded my joints, and now I stood there in a cold squint of low setting sun. Directly south was Spain. East was France. West was home – but it’s a distance too far no matter how far away west is – there’s nothing…
It's Still Life 