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Winter Leeks.
Some days my thoughts are slow and brownNo matter what shoes I wearor what clothes I put on.
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Who Will Remember .
Who will remember if the watch I wear Is Cartier… Shabaka..or Franck Mega 4why should they care ...
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We Never Forget
The Elephant.Steadily she movesThis old and gracious beastShe holds her secretsClose into her heartAs she carries menUpon her ...
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War Zones
It will end where it began.. ..in fear
fear to the end,..
will armed adult men stop killing unarmed children?
children running……running ...
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Unpacking London
Clothes tossed upon the bed make their own patterning…the fabrics blending intowardssome older memoryof farms in France and women ...
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The Truce.
Thin and respectable respectableShe stirs the pudding One hand onThe wooden spoonShe holds a latin grammar in the other.
The ...
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The Tombstones
I did not dare to ask you ...come with meI went alone instead ,I said...thirty years later...Looking past the ...
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The Thoughts of Rick McVie
WHY DON"T YOU PEDDLE your wares ...?
people sell paper flowers on the street. at least they ...
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The Sullied Wedding Dress… a true story in short lines.
I remember well their wedding day…He… dashing Eton… wealthyShe … a ...
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The Oil Man Cometh….last night.
It’s dark outside Strange sounds from near my gateSo I get up.. look out at flashing ...
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The Mystery Woman
And shadowy amongst the shadowsWe find you wearing that old gaberdine …a camera round your neck ...In black ...
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The Mermaid and the Man…..A Spinning Yarn in Short Lines.
Salt water from the Seven Seas licked at the towering rockAnd ...
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The Love of Rick McVie
Understand ...I huddle around the firethat burns inside me all winter long..no one will help me..it ...
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The Lament of Malachy Higgins.
My eyesight's fading. ...butI can smell the day and that the library books are overdue…from yards ...
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The Inner Child
Too soon the inner child can disappearAnd wither in the shadow of all wars…And blinded by atrocityIt seems ...
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The Grave at Mt Jerome.
I look at my mother’s grave…her ashes in a ground devoid of flowers…..locked down amongst the ...
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Ghosts of the wrecking ball
Have gone.…
I don’t think about him any moreNot even the song…
….the last thing he said ...
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The Feasting Kind
There is a throbbing in the corridor...outside my doorAs if a pipe is choked in London on this ...
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The Fear.
Walking in the parkWas bleakWe...Scarcely speakingTook long sorry pathsUnder gallows of trees.
The briarHad left scarsAnd denial
That the spearhead of ...
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The Fear of Dark.
From the satellite...we see electricityBurning from every land...hot brilliance of fires on earth...our burning planetThat glare that ...
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The Fallen Wife….. A true story in short lines.
Rex..Amsterdam-er.. handsome…blue marble eyes and corn blond hairStrut with his solid frame..from ...
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The Crowning of the Puck
I said to him..this goes back a long way doesn’t it?He looked at me.It’s a Pagan ...
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The Crowd Within the Soul
Within the gathered body of the crowdI weave amongst the other souls along the weary flagstones ...
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The Colour Red.
Con’s a Celebrity. I live with him. I’m nobody..but he knows that.It suits him that I stay that ...
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The Cyclamen.
She sits, her sharp cut cheeks of pink ….aglow .I see her there, stuck on the supermarket shelf,The pot ...
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The Bully in the House
I did not realise the Bully in the HouseAlso resided in the Middle East ..the WestThe ...
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The Blindness of the Night.
First was the clay and then the potter cameHer fingers slender long and deft .She moulded ...
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Walking by the sea I had hoped the stones Would fall from your eyes Onto the beach.
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That Long Gone Star
In infinity… we are smaller than a tiny dot.And yet our joys and troubles seem so largeTo ...
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Summer.
The memory of winter glovesDrying Swallowed by the skyThe swallow flies.Long flight .Short life.
The plum and apple tree are silentNo ...
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Strange sleep...a dreamMost nights are quiet ...like a gardenSweetBut when the memoryBecomes a jagged thing Sly forces strikeAnd a discordant ...