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    Poetry

    "Making the Fire" & "Solstice"

    February 15, 2019

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    Ian Stuart

    Making the fire


    Each morning I’d get up and make the fire –
    a pocket-money job , and yet
    one I enjoyed. The house was still and cold.
    A thin, insipid light seeped through the blinds.
    I riddled last night’s embers , watched the ash
    float down in feathers to the tray bel...

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    Poetry

    Poetry - Ian Stuart's 'Picking Pears' & 'Making the Fire'

    April 1, 2018

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    Ian Stuart

    Picking pears

    Like people, pears will ripen
    from inside.
    Picked too early, you will find they’re
    hard, unyielding.
    Leave it late
    and there’ll be nothing left
    but wasp drilled carcasses
    and mush.


    Choose the moment.

    A cool September evening seems right-
    shifting sunlight a...

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