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By HaiAnh

Experiments.

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Emma 4 Tom 4ever

By HaiAnh on Mon, 07 Jul 2008

And those that his arm stiffened at were the ones he knew by name. For the students that had written love into the wood, he flicked a whim over like a pebble, and shot it into a promise.
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A Minute

By HaiAnh on Sun, 27 Jul 2008

If you wouldn’t mind sitting still, just for a minute: your hair would be a butterfly sanctuary, white lichen would grow on your elbow and moss at your knees, the farmer would come
Autobiography
Poem
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All Our Music Is Instantly Clear For The World

By HaiAnh on Wed, 23 Apr 2008

Hornets, poetry and relativity.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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April Commute

By HaiAnh on Mon, 21 Apr 2008

My surreal commute to and from work.
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Are You Going To Get Dressed Today?

By HaiAnh on Sat, 19 Apr 2008

I will not make the same mistake as Colderidge did. I was interupted, but made the interuption the poem.
Autobiography
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Armrest

By HaiAnh on Thu, 16 Apr 2009

Origami. This morning I heard birds on the roof it sounded like they were unfolding and folding scrunched paper. Origami, was my first thought. I welcomed the armrests
Autobiography
Poem
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Breathless

By HaiAnh on Tue, 08 Jul 2008

I ran Up the hill In a ‘Vote for Pedro’ t-shirt. Where the grass Is too long I walked. Glassless And mistook the vetch for a calf, the cow parsley: a figure in the woods
Autobiography
Poem
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Bus tour/Radio

By HaiAnh on Sat, 17 Jan 2009

Someone shot look at the view breaking reportedly heading to the mall there’s the Rockies highest point on the confirmed dead trans- Canadian highway people are being asked to avoid
Autobiography
Poem
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Poem of the week

Cause and Affect

By HaiAnh on Sat, 12 Apr 2008

I have my first real-life Facebook stalker. At 65 he is younger than my previous stalker.
Autobiography
Certificate PG

China Dainty

By HaiAnh on Wed, 23 Apr 2008

Take this. Touch porcelain oblong dish And moss cloth Where clipped toes pot. Red yourself. I pale petit local Touch star snow that shuffles golden white down and
Travel
Poem
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Compensate

By HaiAnh on Tue, 29 Jul 2008

Leave earlier than you could ever anticipate. Leave enough time for the train to change its mind, switch direction, think: not London - Leeds, haven’t been there in a while.
Autobiography
Poem
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Day Night

By HaiAnh on Tue, 29 Jul 2008

The post woman unzips the drive, letterbox peaks open, then shuts sharply, eyelids heavy, lashes interlocked like a Venus flytrap. She puts handwritten letters on top,
Miscellaneous
Poem
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DEAR READER

By HaiAnh on Wed, 25 Mar 2009

Dear Reader, we have not met this is because I have been busy writing terribly important things. I think of you occasionally when nothing else of much importance is happening.
Humour
Poem
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The 10 things we talk about when we talk about love

By HaiAnh on Thu, 14 Feb 2008

Happy Valentine's Day.
Love
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The Man In Front

By HaiAnh on Thu, 14 Feb 2008

Experiments in narration.
Miscellaneous
Certificate PG

The Year of Miracles

By HaiAnh on Sat, 01 Mar 2008

He was not thinking of the light bulb as it batted it’s last wing. He had lay in the bath too long - he was thinking of his rumpled mushroom.
Miscellaneous
Certificate PG

How It All keeps Its Rhythm

By HaiAnh on Wed, 02 Apr 2008

First that Chicago click of heels, tap drip, then the low, uncontrollable sigh as they sit, skirts shoved up hastily, trousers slung to the floor,
Humour
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Used. Like new.

By HaiAnh on Tue, 08 Apr 2008

A 64-year-old playwright, retired, Whilst driving slowly through fog Told me clearly that we “are meant for each other”. When I got home I purchased his book Super delivery. We are.
Humour
Poem
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The Remaining Inch Which Could Move Aside The Wrinkle

By HaiAnh on Thu, 10 Apr 2008

car porn.
Miscellaneous
Certificate 15
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The Eye And Inside Being Them

By HaiAnh on Thu, 10 Apr 2008

Lifts unfold them like origami to omniscient, one-armed cranes pointing their guns skyward prophesying rain. Cyclists dismount. Lorries flick their scent. Dolphin trains beach
Miscellaneous
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Keep Apart Two Chevrons

By HaiAnh on Thu, 10 Apr 2008

1st in sequence which includes: The Eye and Inside Being Them, The Paper Of The Country And The Housewife, They Will Forgive Them Everything, The remaining Inch Which Could remove the Wrinkle
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I Caught Him Facing Up A Tin Of Pears

By HaiAnh on Fri, 18 Apr 2008

Poem about a PC I work with sometimes who wants to fix the internet.
Autobiography
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The Teeth That Crossed The Picket Line

By HaiAnh on Sat, 19 Apr 2008

My teeth are crossing the picket line, at night, when they think my nail won’t slip into the alley between them as they slowly edge themselves out.
Autobiography
Certificate U
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Everything That Nearly Happened

By HaiAnh on Tue, 22 Apr 2008

Guilt.
Miscellaneous
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LOCUST

By HaiAnh on Wed, 23 Apr 2008

What the Vietnamese farmers saw.
Travel
Poem
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Lessons in Intonation

By HaiAnh on Fri, 02 May 2008

I am learning what the birds are about and how to reply to them. It is simple: pretend you’re married
Poem
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Prelude

By HaiAnh on Sat, 03 May 2008

Sunday Days before they knock the door, open, come in, hello, to check everything. He doesn’t call it hunt, it has another name: The Wheatland.
Autobiography
Poem
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The Troubadour

By HaiAnh on Tue, 13 May 2008

I followed its arrow advice, on this, the hottest of days: quickly straddled the stile, left my dress panting where it fell, watched my white vest dissolve to sugared rice paper, licked
Autobiography
Poem
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I want you to know that I am doing this for you

By HaiAnh on Tue, 13 May 2008

My dressing gown is shearing my skin I am sleep derived and overheating. The only way I can trick this pinprick of daylight that’s left is to treat myself like a child lie convincingly
Love
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Shoeboxes of love stacked like brickwork

By HaiAnh on Sat, 17 May 2008

Lives kept in shoeboxes.
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I Saw The Rain

By HaiAnh on Sat, 28 Jun 2008

I saw the rain, and I turned back. And my seat was still warm at the table. And the glass was still covered. And the conversation hadn’t changed. And the bell hadn’t rung.
Autobiography
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Summer haikus

By HaiAnh on Sat, 26 Jul 2008

Always time for a haiku
Autobiography
Poem
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The Caretaker

By HaiAnh on Mon, 28 Jul 2008

Army salesmen are circling the school, calling to the children like sirens gripping their ankles. I cast my arms wide like a weighted fishing net and gather them in, splashing with excitement.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Slow Motion

By HaiAnh on Mon, 28 Jul 2008

First draft, all suggestions grately recieved.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Sardines

By HaiAnh on Tue, 30 Sep 2008

Normally, you can tell. Now, I am not supposed to be here. Usually: the duvet would be flung theatrically across the bed, proclaiming: I’ve been slept in; bra hung from a lamp shade,
Miscellaneous
Certificate U

Facing Up

By HaiAnh on Thu, 02 Oct 2008

In retail this is called ‘facing up’, to turn the products forward so they can be eyed by customers. The sergeant lined women like this, like tins, tied rags around their eyes.
Miscellaneous
Certificate PG
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Met

By HaiAnh on Sun, 05 Oct 2008

I should’ve been asleep, but sat upright clasping a cup of cold coffee to my chest and listening out for everyone who hadn’t met yet… Remember the Brandywell Lane bus stop
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The Spider

By HaiAnh on Sun, 05 Oct 2008

What I hated about mezze was a spider that spread his picnic-blanket net, sat like a roman in the centre as dishes flung themselves around his plate. That spider never doubted,
Miscellaneous
Certificate PG
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The Streetlight at the End of 42nd

By HaiAnh on Fri, 17 Oct 2008

An ekphrastic poem in draft, all comments welcome.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Pawn

By HaiAnh on Fri, 17 Oct 2008

Ladies, stop a second. Don’t hand over the jar, when the lid won’t open, or else in five years it’ll be car keys, then car. You’ll be stumbling, wheeling a pramful, puzzled,
Humour
Poem
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Saga

By HaiAnh on Thu, 06 Nov 2008

I have been whispering to the printer since just after nine. It has given nothing, only flashed ‘drum’ and whined and stopped and whined and filled me full then stopped
Autobiography
Poem
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Hush

By HaiAnh on Thu, 04 Dec 2008

...and the reasons we can’t and no one will bless us and smoke and refresh and Bach’s Rescue Remedy in a Walthamstow toilet and ghazals.
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It's about

By HaiAnh on Sat, 13 Dec 2008

A life of a man who makes wealth he goes to cultural events and he has friends and he plays cards and he has a wife and enough children he has everything but instead of adding up
Miscellaneous
Certificate U
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Sestina for my far too beautiful self

By HaiAnh on Wed, 25 Mar 2009

I look far too beautiful to travel on buses. This is what people say when I am travelling on buses looking far too beautiful.
Humour
Poem
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I am Good

By HaiAnh on Sun, 29 Mar 2009

I am good at writing. See I am doing it now, one handed. My name has been in magazines and some books (see CV). I can explain didactic rhythm and spondees to children.
Autobiography
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Saturday Morning

By HaiAnh on Sun, 29 Mar 2009

Are you awake? I walk into a supermarket on Hoe Street so I can hear him. It’s one I haven’t been into yet. I pretend to look interested in the cereals. Yes, since eight.
Autobiography
Poem
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WAITING ROOM

By HaiAnh on Fri, 03 Apr 2009

First draft. All feedback welcome.
Miscellaneous
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You See

By HaiAnh on Sat, 04 Apr 2009

When you see a crocus, you say it’s beautiful. When you see a carcass, you say it’s horrible. When you see a painting, you say it’s beautiful.
Miscellaneous
Poem
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Picnic

By HaiAnh on Sun, 05 Apr 2009

It’s all I have to bring today: this small notebook. I pat my pockets theatrically Now where could it be? A corner peeks out like a handkerchief I heave out the rest.
Autobiography
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Sushi

By HaiAnh on Sat, 11 Apr 2009

Autobiography
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Polite

By HaiAnh on Thu, 16 Apr 2009

Apartment is polite for flat. Loft conversion is polite for extra rent. Patio is polite for nothing grows. My grandmother was polite to people who weren’t in our immediate family.
Autobiography
Poem
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The same rain story

By HaiAnh on Mon, 20 Apr 2009

It is still raining. I am beginning to wonder if it ever wasn’t. If there was a less shiny day once when I saw a man carrying an umbrella and barked with laughter?
Autobiography
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