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Long Haul Flight Learning to leave things undone is a training for death When you set foot on that plane for a long overseas trip what doesn...

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Windows  This room has no windows  No above no below  A single bulb dangles lazily  Casing shadows on your face  As it meets my eye  But all...

That Feeling Like No Other Under the cover. Of a thin, worn corrugated sheet  On a bed.  In a shack. By the sea.  With thunderous southerlie...

  Three on the Tree Gold HG Holden Premier nineteen seventy-one sedan with single dint on side door panel installed a decent hi-fi in it pla...

A Little Bit Longer A miraculous arrival has come along and caused a Massive shift around in mind and room as at last This place feels almos...

jerk’s circle   there’s the: bloated one who eats all the free biscuits the: chain smoker the: one who keeps draping a veiny chicken fillet ...

This Hawk There is this hawk That careens along the currents With the sea foam in his eye And the mountain peak Churning in his gut. There i...

the swing  the old, dirty tire hanging from two chains  seesaws, always  empty,  it continues to sway praying for one  person to use it, giv...

Caritas My friend has made  an atomic chilli sauce  and given me a small jar  and a warning to be careful  it tastes wonderful  it has a bea...

Christiania * Silly to be reading the guidebook on a bench in waning light ... All day the sun had never quite escaped the clouds. But he wa...

Dream Careers Awaken 1.                    Still you have to hang out with other footballers,            their wives and girlfriends. 2.    ...

Open Mic Night feat. Ernest Hemingway Six bucks for a cup of coffee — glad I didn’t live to see the day. Robot wizards, gizmo galaxies — for...

We danced You and I danced in the living room near the ottoman chair and azure blanket as the guitarist from Mali played through his soul on...

Shall We Gather: Beginning with a Line by Kenneth Patchen See how those stars tramp over heaven, how vagrant trains below wrestle with dark ...

A Marriage My wife is sleeping by my side, I hear her breathing in and out in the chilly, early morning air. Now, after nine years together,...

Wake A doughy doll bundled in black sat in a corner, white hair piled in a Gibson bun.  Pecking her doughy cheek I got a whiff of withering....

Steeped in history The afternoon slumps --- habit calls for a cuppa. The mind craves something staunch to reboot as the coffee-fuelled resol...

Pidgin (speak white*)  Today I heard a young man speaking in tongues  from a televised platform  in the heart of downtown  Cameras rolled ba...