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Vase of Daffodils by J.S.Watts
Vase of Daffodils Bright enough to burn Into a bleakly urban Tuesday morning – Vase of yellow sunshine on my window sill. Brewery sketched greyly behind Is not redeemed, however. Opened during the night, Their faces now crane upwards Towards Mother Sun As she peers downwards Through concrete fingers. Charm and pathos mixed. What price…
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The Season of Change by Michele Poole
The Season of Change
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Solstice Song by Rob Lock
Solstice Song Sun beating down all the longest day rain throughout the shortest night. Fitting extremes for intemperate days when heat is taken for light. Copyright © 2020 Rob Lock
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Anniversary Song by Rob Lock
Anniversary Song That first summer he was water rinsing through her hair, underbelly of the cat; she a crisp clean shirt, baize top of the desk that he dreamed at… and if he’s sometimes now the grease stuck to the bottom of the oven, she the shelf he bangs his head on standing up… they’re…
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#Me Neither by Rob Lock
#Me Neither Six of us together: three women of a certain age – buddies of old – along with their final (here’s hoping) life partners, when, in the fullness of time, the talk turned to estate agents, and one that the others all knew from way back – pillar etc. – who, it transpired, had…
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Martin Hayden p.2
Landfall, IonaDuns Scotus on IonaGod and the Corncrake
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Martin Hayden p.1
Negotiating Right of Way on Iona Living in Community Green-veined White Abrachian