Inspiration point (IP)

The first Christmas tree has gone up just over the road from me. The city where I live is clogged with eager visitors to The Christmas Market. I have my own views about Christmas starting in November, but each to their own. The Inspiration Point this week is: Anticipation.

Inspiration point

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Montage of my sons. IP

Quicksilver hands as sharp as eyes. Your Trojan smiles flinty edged, your jawlines merge with the fizz and pop of consonant and vowel. American and Anglicised.

Centralian

The soil is boiling. Noxious fumes rise from fissures. Ice cubes and air-fresheners Are thrown down from the mansion windows And we are expected to...

Elegy To the Worker

The bricks of the human world are dying. Others are being born as we speak, But others still are dying And the world is dying and changing with them...
Cherry

A ‘Mayfly’ Day … (IP)

– early evening swarm above the stream – mating mayflies shimmer; with the setting sun eggs descend, mayfly die, and are no more until … nymphs hatch...

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