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StoryMy First Apocalypse JamesF22 years 10 months ago
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StoryThe Gorgeous Things on Which We Prey JamesF04 years 9 months ago
StoryEaster Thoughts skinner_jennifer164 years 9 months ago
StoryThe Storm JamesF14 years 9 months ago
StorySinging in Lockdown JamesF24 years 9 months ago
StoryLooking At Us (Hope It All Goes Away) David Kirtley44 years 9 months ago
StoryIgniting the Ignorant JamesF34 years 9 months ago
StoryAll on Red JamesF54 years 9 months ago
StoryCatching My Parents at It JamesF04 years 9 months ago
StoryPrelude to a Storm JamesF34 years 9 months ago
StoryPlan Bee JamesF04 years 9 months ago
StoryThe Edge of a Glass JamesF04 years 9 months ago
StoryA Handful of Sand JamesF04 years 11 months ago
StoryUpon Visiting Rembrandthaus JamesF35 years 2 days ago
StoryWe Need to Keep Our Eyes Open JamesF15 years 1 week ago
StoryTaken Out of the Fight JamesF25 years 2 months ago
StoryTrying to Remember What It Was Like JamesF25 years 2 months ago
StoryD-Day JamesF05 years 2 months ago
StorySummer's warm glow is dying JamesF05 years 2 months ago
StoryThe Catch of Commerce JamesF25 years 5 months ago
StoryLeaving Phnom Penh JamesF05 years 5 months ago
StoryWatching mothers of knife crime victims on TV JamesF15 years 5 months ago
StoryChild comforting a mother JamesF05 years 5 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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