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Pick Up
Almost home. Angel hurried up in the hill at Byron Street, pulling her coat tighter around her flowery Boots' blouse, the high winds catching in her...
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what comes after Christmas.
Carl sucked on his teeth but didn’t say anything when the camper van parked in their street. The neighbours would squabble about it soon enough...
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silent as need be
Rain battered down. A give-and-take. They walked side-by-side, silent as need be. They crossed Kilbowie Road, watching for traffic, listening for the...
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Awake
Almost the worst thing A face that no longer speaks Warfarin and medical wattle One that makes you weep Sloshing around is somebody No need for an...
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claptrap
Collecting a plastic medal on his 30 th anniversary. Clenched teeth and a rictus smile. The backslapping goodness of them all. Dry lips. Missing God...
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Yes, she really was saintly
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Yes, she really was saintly and human too.
Read full commentPosted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom
the moron's moron is German,
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...
Read full commentPosted in Too Many Tabs Open
I suppose we all end up with
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?
Read full commentPosted in Muscle memory
I shaved my dad before he
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm.
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The next BBC Open Call
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
The next BBC Open Call submission window will be open between 12 noon on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and 12 noon on Tuesday 5th December 2023.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you....Part 6
ah words sometimes fall short
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance.
Read full commentPosted in Mother-tongue
I hope we're swinging back
Posted on Sat, 29 Jul 2023
I hope we're swinging back into the light. Maybe not yet, Maybe not ever. But the hope sings in your poem.
Read full commentPosted in "Murky Waters"
I guess we all see worthless
Posted on Mon, 01 May 2023
I guess we all see worthless coins sometimes. but to trade them for words and poetry is to create a new currency.
Read full commentPosted in The thought of it
death has a way or reminding
Posted on Fri, 27 Jan 2023
death has a way or reminding us not to eat sweaty cheese.
Read full commentPosted in end of the pier
it's a dog's life, but
Posted on Fri, 09 Dec 2022
it's a dog's life, but sometimes it isn't. The transmigration of the soul takes many forms (so we're told). Why not a dog? Or a cat? Or a Tory? Too far, sorry.
Read full commentPosted in The Last Wish of Christmas
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