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StoryMy First Apocalypse JamesF23 years 2 weeks ago
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StoryThe Gorgeous Things on Which We Prey JamesF04 years 11 months ago
StoryEaster Thoughts skinner_jennifer164 years 12 months ago
StoryThe Storm JamesF15 years 2 days ago
StorySinging in Lockdown JamesF25 years 2 days ago
StoryLooking At Us (Hope It All Goes Away) David Kirtley45 years 2 days ago
StoryIgniting the Ignorant JamesF35 years 2 days ago
StoryAll on Red JamesF55 years 3 days ago
StoryCatching My Parents at It JamesF05 years 3 days ago
StoryPrelude to a Storm JamesF35 years 1 week ago
StoryPlan Bee JamesF05 years 1 week ago
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StoryA Handful of Sand JamesF05 years 1 month ago
StoryUpon Visiting Rembrandthaus JamesF35 years 2 months ago
StoryWe Need to Keep Our Eyes Open JamesF15 years 3 months ago
StoryTaken Out of the Fight JamesF25 years 5 months ago
StoryTrying to Remember What It Was Like JamesF25 years 5 months ago
StoryD-Day JamesF05 years 5 months ago
StorySummer's warm glow is dying JamesF05 years 5 months ago
StoryThe Catch of Commerce JamesF25 years 7 months ago
StoryLeaving Phnom Penh JamesF05 years 7 months ago
StoryWatching mothers of knife crime victims on TV JamesF15 years 8 months ago
StoryChild comforting a mother JamesF05 years 8 months ago

My stories

My First Apocalypse

Watching the helicopters flying across my screen on this night, which feels like it will last forever, I am determined to go on until I see Willard’s...

Emergency Caravan

Emergency Caravan The throb of the engine, the only sound heard, our caravan through the darkness, hundreds of miles of Arabian desert sands, some...

A Wood Pigeon Reminisces

Into the complex midst of sparrows jabbering, the sharp violence of two robins jousting, comes the master of the garden, stomach bloated, dressed in...

The Gorgeous Things on Which We Prey

I alight on your food, rub hands with glee expect you to swat me, my crass brown body, thin wings take me away rapidly, quick as an eyelash closes,...
Cherry

Singing in Lockdown

I am locked down, but my brain is in hyperdrive, extended reems unfold beyond me, forgotten schemes rediscovered in the tight confines of my...

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Detailed but measured

Posted on Thu, 09 Apr 2020

I really like the measured opening two lines of the penultimate stanza: "The streets of Rome are empty./The tourists have all gone away." Sometimes simplicity says it best.

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