Mark Heathcote

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I have 597 stories published in 2 collections on the site.
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Mark Heathcote

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Ask what is there to hunt or fish for now?

Your hunting days they're fading now your strength is skinned like a seal-pup your bones they’re like cotton collars needing starch to hold them trousers up.

That’s what they at the asylum now say

I have walked in wait of my own death I have swam and drowned in my own life I have climbed only to sink beneath the sky I have crawled belly-down and stood on-high

Winters apart

We live winters apart That’s how we live and love It may have become a black art But it’s indicative of The way we live the lie The way we seek To share “but honestly, misapply

Bloodshed...

A nagging doubt? What's it all about? What's it all about? If only I knew..? I'd quiet these trouser pocket sinews And even maybe write some better haiku

Why did the star dust dance

Why did the star dust dance Why did the rainbow move its stance Why did I hold your hand and shiver Why did you move me like a bolder in the river Why did I feel found and yet mysteriously lost

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