Picks of the Month
December
Because Of The Color (Short Story)
I am standing on the corner of Main and Second when I suddenly become self-conscious of my sweater.
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The Goodbye
No smile or words. Rigid, unyielding, for that last photograph. His arm, slack, around my shoulder. I turn from the shot. Hide my tears, knowing he...
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- 2651 reads
November
Rooks
Rooks Past the backbone’s second hump and hollow hawthorns, a foam of brackish snow and distant light. I heard them first, a row of hanging rooks –...
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- 4172 reads
September
Something You'll Have To Live With
Part One
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Tenebris Interlucentem (into the darkness… light)
'into the darkness… light' a winter Wednesday open-mic in a dingy pub in Pontefract or was it Halifax? I don’t rate poetry but if the beer’s good and...
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August
Illicit Exercise
I’ve taken to running around the field behind my house - you might not call it running - but there is an element of privacy the field affords which...
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- 6899 reads
July
Pins (21)
Image: Wikimedia commons https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pin-N_III_3150-IMG_8986.JPG
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- 4024 reads
June
Pad Life 12: Summer's Here!
It's toes weather... Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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Iriecat
First garden tremble on kiss soft paddy paws to spine shake yawls I held you, I hold you your father You circle chased a squirrel, roared with joy on...
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May
To the 185,000 retirees of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, in commemoration of the expansion of Bristol Airport
For the 185,000 retirees of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan in Commemoration of the Expansion of Bristol Airport, February 2022. Let the cash flow...