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“You say”
“A star-filled sky” You say. “Just a pierced eye” I say. “The world is beyond the cape of night” You say. “The world is beneath the cape of night” I ...
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“The chain and three dice”
I bought the chain with my eyes when I saw it on display – no price tag, just a sticker that says ‘Special offer! A negotiable price!’ So I negotiated ...
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“What was left unsaid”
He is given the baby to hold in his strong arms; he remembers all he’s been told – how a newborn disarms a man’s heart; how a man begins to ...
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“Words”
I keep trying to write words that just don’t yet exist within the pages of my personal thesaurus. My pencil keeps scribbling; the rubber keeps trailing the lead as the ...
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“Sepia pictures and red wine”
Too familiar are the notes of Moonlight Sonata to me, like the hasty hum of roads searching for a place to flee. It plays to me always – or whenever ...
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“Steady”
Steady your lung-sighs during Sabbath and sit in your once dark-brown armchair; now a spreading cancer of autumn beige steals the chair’s gown. Steady your once youthful coal-mine arms and ...
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“Full stop”
A dash – a semicolon; always just a- head of each line; like the ‘out of bounds’ sign – perhaps I should grow a spine. Perhaps I should finish my ...