Melkur
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I have 189 stories published in
6 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 85645 times
and 26 of my stories have been cherry picked.
My stories
Netherfields
Four sails of the seas To navigate a dry-dock vessel, Square and stationary To turn the air to Dutch advantage. But at last the dyke has burst: derelict Stands the house of industry;
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- 344 reads
Girders
Skeletal children born of industrial flame, Called into being to serve the outgoing ships, Before the Navy came to service the Firth. The frightening rush of Dreadnaughts
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- 343 reads
Maypole
Centre of the village, focus of historic fears, Children dance to the old songs, dark rhythms in their blood Unconsciously following the final rite in innocent passage,
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- 384 reads
Stack, Foinaven, Arkle
Stack, footstool of Thor’s voice, Tremble the earth before the sky’s blood So tender to melt the earth, Foisted and fostering, Awaiting grace on the fall of summer,
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- 340 reads
The Life and Times of a Halberd
Cut from the oak, in dying it lives again. Swishing harvest fields austerely as a judge, Beheading the still and silent grain, The axe come to call on Anne Boleyn.
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- 481 reads