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HS2 Is Not Coming Soon
I am sorry to announce,
but my long awaited
HS2 poem
has been branded
‘unachievable’,
and is at risk
of not coming out.
Successive
brutish reviews
say it won't deliver
soon, and
a poetic replan
should cut the
quatrains to haikus.
My sonnets
run obsolete,
villanelles
don’t complete,
and the limerick (below)
is the only...
Monday 14th August 2023 1:19 pm
We Sat There
***
Two vacant park benches
under an old gray pine
are slate and damp
with dingy mold,
moss & pine needles
coat cracked seats
& tables crisscrossed
by mucus slug-trails–
A gray squirrel grips a stray
acorn between razor teeth
to sit and nibble under chilly
ashen bowers; this somber
winter day of the newborn
year. We sat there.
Tuesday 9th February 2021 8:43 pm
We Chose Hooks
do you remember
those nights
we placed hooks in our eyes?
waiting in our sleep
to catch the darting lies
that swam inside our heads
do you remember
those nights?
we should have walked
the chrome stacked streets
that rolled like silver eels
where stub ends sailed on tarry keels
in that vanishing space between
the night clubs gaudy hush
and necessities capi...
Sunday 13th January 2013 10:51 am
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