Picks of the Month
March
stars over kennet
stars over kennet star lit stones wrap around me and i am held rapt for a pitch-black procession the memory of daylight sleeping beneath frosted ice...
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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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- 1271 reads
February
Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World
A serrated bottle cap. A triangle of green glass. These are unusual shells: strange, immortal tools that she collects during a morning’s foraging...
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January
Uncle John's Popemobile.
Black specks were moving on the stacked plates of uneaten leftovers and the casual smears of a man that had tried to tidy up. Casualties lay on the...
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Act! A Poem for Basildon
Act! Looking from the window above, like a story of love. Can you hear me? — Yazoo, Only You. 1982 I'm lonely here. There are no poets here. Oh yes,...
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December
Children of the Absolution
A recollection of thoughts I had during my childhood in the 1960s. I intended writing them down long before now but I was always terrified to death at the thought of the potential consequences.
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November
Total Quality Management
United we stand?
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The Fisherwoman and the Sea
THE FISHERWOMAN AND THE SEA For days I watched her. Every morning when I looked out to sea the trawler was there in exactly the same spot: about half...
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