Devoid of colour, blind ink licking round vision

 to tar the eyes and misguide the traveller.

Writing its lies and sprouting its black horns.

Picking the words, it would not let you see

and took you to a fiery street of malicious, misconstrued facts.

Facts, blatant and treacherous of non-existent weapons of destruction.

Of threats to your home and a hundred reasons to make y...

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Dusty, pregnant and green

Tight apples, nipped plums,

Landmine chestnuts, capped acorns.

Sticky sap coated under bellies of bark.

Well grown hands of leaves,

Limp wristed in late summer haze.

Groaning lengths of limbs,

Patting the ground pulled by their weight.

Within the canopy, a scuffle of squirrels, a flutter of wing.

Between roots, daddy long-legs and ants.

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Mid-afternoon after a missed lunch

Too close to the evening meal,

An expectant rumble way down

Anticipating a long hunger.

The culinary instincts of his own recipes

Combine with Ami Gees, Aunty Gees and sisters,

To recreate a unique Salan hai.

Brown hands cracking

Tissue paper parchment of garlic cloves.

A roll of varnished onion skin,

Then deftly, large pal...

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Friendship in the Fall

Maple leaves lime yellow,

see through claret red paved the way and

led us to conversations of losing all our teeth

but still bleating for cake.

Cake as creamy as the

lusty browns and chiccy chocolate hues

that line a wavy iced canal.

We gum grimace at the thought of losing teeth.

Reflecting each others squinting eyes and mashing gnas...

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