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If our grandparents left their house,
we'd miss the Autumn evening drive
to there after school on Fridays,
down the road where people rarely
discover their way to the village with
thirty-five locals, still quite hidden & remote.
We'd miss the night's clouds on
silent stained glass of the village
Church as it greets us just before
the flare of trees & village green
is still distinguis...
Sunday 13th October 2024 8:57 pm
Good Things
Good Things
After the poem Three Good Things by Jan Dean.
At week's end, I remember
three good things.
Maybe pencils, with their quiet apt of strokes
for a gravelly ground,
or a fading, fraying edge, or a feather,
or a pamphlet of zebra
stripe.
Maybe glass, for when it never lets me miss the details,
the detail behind a history,
haberdashery sho...
Sunday 13th October 2024 6:17 pm
Canada
I remember us in the tall
of balconied condominiums over there.
I remember the seemingly rainbowy effect
drawing us towards new clothes & music for sale
in exquisite gigantesque shopping malls, the
trust we will be hearing a hello, and have a nice
day tune from shop assistants at every shop door,
where billboards above advertised albums by Beyonce,
fragrances, and films, us becoming f...
Saturday 17th August 2024 8:09 pm
Shimmery
Poem after Isabel Galleymore.
The cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly
embroidered to the front of a recyclable blue
loves to be on the show so much.
Fashion arrays, boutique sales, forest floors,
and decades of its shimmery are uncounted everywhere.
When the invitation for us to meet outside is there,
the cute beaded sequin-embellished firefly is
a neon sign announcing a caf...
Friday 26th July 2024 11:08 am
Mouthful of Words Poem after Brian Moses
Mouthful Of Words
Poem after Brian Moses
These are the words my teacher teaches,
omnipresent, evaporating, invigilator, dichotomy,
diminuendo.
Then there are the words at home they choose
in our chatters animated to recounting the news.
There are the words that Grandma always seems
to say that I regurgitate, no matter the situation or their
denoting: bam...
Wednesday 29th May 2024 9:31 pm
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