Thing & Other Poems
Thing To her, the neighbor’s flowering bougainvillea is a reminder of the fondling she suffered at the hands of a different neighbor...
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- Jan 1, 2020
Balloon in the Intersection at Night & Other Poems
Acquiesce Crystalline spider, size of a seed, thumbs clenched edges of the impenetrable peony bud, balled until it’s ready, ...
- Dec 30, 2019
Tomato picking and other poems
Tomato picking Grape tomatoes, these swollen berries like summer ornaments, dangle from tethered vine. Their ripeness judged by how...
- Oct 16, 2019
Ceinwen E. Cariad Haydon: Druridge Bay
Druridge Bay bell notes shimmer hang in the air ring and rhyme and shower shore-wards they ripple out whipped egg-white foam then...
- Oct 14, 2019
Sarah Wallis: Pondlife
Pondlife after Blur Indolence is an aspiration for the whale watcher for what is known to the professionals as… pondlife… And early...
- Jun 24, 2019
Poetry: "When Pigs Can Fly"
When Pigs Can Fly one day when pigs can fly we’ll be at peace with males ancients who deny we are equal to them assume we...
- May 27, 2019
A Slave To His Habit & Poetry Beckons Me
A SLAVE OF HIS HABIT. His eyes red like that of a hungry lion With sweat pouring out of every hole in his body Ants moving over his body...
- Apr 3, 2019
"Tea and Cake" & "Gardeners of the Forest"
Tea and Cake When my knees scrape rock bottom Death lifts up her manhole cover and invites me in for a warm brew She tells me my body can...
- Mar 22, 2019
Poetry: Wasted
Wasted Bone-deep aches anchor him to his sour bed. Outside, rainfall makes laundry impractical to contemplate. Once, he recalls, vigour...
- Mar 7, 2019
Flash Fiction: "Broken Boiler"
Broken Boiler Her head hurt from the perfumed candles. Fresh cut roses crept synthetically up her nostrils to sit just behind her eyes....